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The contributors to
Visualizing Fascism examine the imagery and visual rhetoric of interwar fascism in East Asia, southern Africa, and Europe to explore how fascism was visualized as a global and aesthetic phenomenon.
List of contents
Introduction: A Portable Concept of Fascism / Julia Adeney Thomas 1
1. Subjects of a New Visual Order: Fascist Media in 1930s China / Maggie Clinton 21
2. Fascism Carved in Stone: Monuments to Loyal Spirits in Wartime Manchukuo / Paul D. Barclay 44
3. Nazism, Everydayness, and Spectacle: The Mass Form in Metropolitan Modernity / Geoff Eley 69
4. Five Faces of Fascism / Ruth Ben-Ghiat 94
5. Face Time with Hitler / Lutz Koepnick 111
6. Seeing through Whiteness: Late 1930s Settler Photography in Namibia under South African Rule / Lorena Rizzo 134
7. Japan's War without Pictures: Normalizing Fascism / Julia Adeney Thomas 160
8. Fascisms Seen and Unseen: The Netherlands, Japan, Indonesia, and the Relationalities of Imperial Crisis / Ethan Mark 183
9. Youth Movements, Nazism, and War: Photography and the Making of a Slovak Future in World War II (1939–1944) / Bertrand Metton 211
10. From Antifascism to Humanism: The Legacies of Robert Capa's Spanish Civil War Photography / Nadya Bair 236
11. Heedless Oblivion: Curating Architecture after World War II / Claire Zimmerman 258
Conclusion / Geoff Eley 284
Bibliography 293
Contributors 317
Index 321
About the author
Julia Adeney Thomas is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and author of
Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology.
Geoff Eley is Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Michigan and author of
Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany, 1930–1945.
Summary
The contributors to Visualizing Fascism examine the imagery and visual rhetoric of interwar fascism in East Asia, southern Africa, and Europe to explore how fascism was visualized as a global and aesthetic phenomenon.
