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題 名 | Leni Riefenstahl, Aestheticization, and Nazism: A Reappraisal |
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作 者 | Lim,Kien-ket; | 書刊名 | Tamkang Review |
卷 期 | 29:4 民88.夏 |
頁 次 | 頁115-138 |
專 輯 | The Cinematic/Traumatic Cities |
分類號 | 987.943 |
關鍵詞 | 德國電影; 納粹主義; Aestheticization; Art; Documentary; German cinema; Fascism; Leni Riefenstahl; Modernity; Nazism; Propoganda; Techne; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | Current interpretations of Leni Riefenstahl's career in the Third Reich have glorified and condemned her talent both at the same time, indicative of a moral anxiety among the critics who cannot explain why "great" art was possible in Nazism. Seeking a dialectical solution to this issue, this paper sets out by arguing that simply calling Riefenstahl's aestheticizing attempt nazi may explain away the autonomy in Fascism of certain non-fascist elements that exacerbate it. In this view, the political trauma inflicted by Nazism must have an aesthetic cause and must, for that reason, take into consideration the conception of art and techne in our modernity through which Nazism has become possible. Riefenstahl's naivete in her aestheticization must be supplemented by Susan Sontag's concept of "fascist aesthetic" to assert that moral wickedness alone may not go far enough to account for the logic of Fascist ruthlessness. |
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