{"title":"Julia Alekseyeva","description":"\u003cp\u003eJulia Alekseyeva's work delves into the compelling intersections of politics, art, and history, with a particular focus on the radical movements of the avant-garde. Her writings provide deep insight into cultural resistance and explore how artistic expression confronts and challenges fascism and authoritarian ideologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful analyses that illuminate the transformative power of the arts within tumultuous social landscapes. Alekseyeva's nuanced approach offers a rich understanding of how creativity serves as a form of activism and a means of shaping cultural memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"antifascism-and-the-avant-garde-by-julia-alekseyeva-9780520415669","title":"Antifascism and the Avant-Garde","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionised the art of documentary. Often inspired by the radical art of the Soviet 1920s, filmmakers in countries like France and Japan dared to make film form a powerful weapon in the fight against fascism, weaving fiction into nonfiction and surrealism with neorealism to rupture everyday ways of being, seeing, and thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough careful readings of Matsumoto Toshio, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, Hani Susumu, and others, Julia Alekseyeva shows that avant-garde documentary films of the 1960s did not strive to inoculate the viewer with the ideology of Truth but instead aimed to unveil and estrange, so that viewers might approach capitalist, imperialist, and fascist media with critical awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAntifascism and the Avant-Garde\u003c\/em\u003e thus provides a transnational ecology of antifascist art that resonates profoundly with our current age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47429812125932,"sku":"9780520415669","price":180.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520415669.jpg?v=1774559874"},{"product_id":"antifascism-and-the-avant-garde-by-julia-alekseyeva-9780520415676","title":"Antifascism and the Avant-Garde","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionized the art of documentary. Often inspired by the radical art of the Soviet 1920s, filmmakers in countries like France and Japan dared to make film form a powerful weapon in the fight against fascism, weaving fiction into nonfiction and surrealism with neorealism to rupture everyday ways of being, seeing, and thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough careful readings of Matsumoto Toshio, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, Hani Susumu, and others, Julia Alekseyeva shows that avant-garde documentary films of the 1960s did not strive to inoculate the viewer with the ideology of Truth but instead aimed to unveil and estrange, so that viewers might approach capitalist, imperialist, and fascist media with critical awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAntifascism and the Avant-Garde\u003c\/em\u003e thus provides a transnational ecology of antifascist art that resonates profoundly with our current age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470048641260,"sku":"9780520415676","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520415676-antifascism-and-the-avant-garde.jpg?v=1775209510"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/julia-alekseyeva.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}