It's no secret that "antifascism" is deeply rooted in Marxist, except to you apparently. ❋ Unknown (2010)
To the bewilderment of observers, however, the side of the political spectrum that prides itself on its supposed history of "antifascism" has spent its time since 9 / 11 defending jihadists and other militant Muslims. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The idea of Hitler as madman is a subtext throughout much that has been written about him, and particularly when it comes to the war.48 Bolshevik propaganda, antifascism, and barely disguised sympathies have precluded the same treatment of Stalin. ❋ John Mosier (2010)
The vehemence of these convictions was matched by the fervor of his antifascism. ❋ David Talbot (2010)
In focusing on the investigation of a politically motivated murder, Crossfire negotiates the realism of noir and the idealism of the Popular Front and suggests that, in the hands of a leftist like Adrian Scott, noir was indeed an ideal vehicle for dramatizing antifascism. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Scott's work during this period suggests his growing political engagement and ever-bolder attempts to subvert the studio system, beginning with the critique of class and corruption in Murder, My Sweet, through the internationalist antifascism of Cornered, to Crossfire, the final point on the trajectory of Scott's attempts to meld his creative and political visions. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The casting decisions made by Scott and the performances of those chosen actors are crucial in embodying on-screen fascism and antifascism, Jewishness and Americanness, masculinity and femininity. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In the postwar period, such activities were often used against suspected Communists as evidence of "premature" antifascism (i.e., antifascism expressed prior to formal American entry into World War Two). ❋ Unknown (2007)
For them, the slogans of antifascism were not "outworn" — indeed, they had, perhaps, even more emotional resonance when the fascist menace seemed to have infected their America and to threaten them personally. ❋ Unknown (2007)
For this generation of American radicals, antifascism was their political raison d'etre; they could not, quite simply, interpret the postwar events in any other way. ❋ Unknown (2007)
On the antifascist continuum, apparently, one might be too antifascist — an overcommitment that would soon be condemned as "premature" antifascism. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Ultimately, then, my analysis of Crossfire and the career of Adrian Scott suggests that the mid-century discourse on Americanism cannot be fully understood without reference to antifascism and anti-Communism, both as ideologies and as political movements. ❋ Unknown (2007)
At one point, to emphasize the essential goodness and antifascism of the French people, Wexley planned to show Gerard living in a French pension where everyone is friendly and patriotic. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Between the end of the war and the onset of the blacklist, a handful of progressive Hollywood filmmakers tried to meld the emerging noir style with overt political content, especially concerning fascism and antifascism. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Though both films suggest that the investigative narrative and the visual style of noir held great potential for dramatizing the politics of antifascism, Scott was also aware of the limitations of these devices, and was stung by comments such as these, which were part of the Hollywood Reporter's review of Cornered: ❋ Unknown (2007)
Ceplair and Englund suggest that despite his membership in the Party and his presumed antifascism, Dmytryk was also "strongly career-oriented" and "wanted the films he directed to be commercial successes." ❋ Unknown (2007)
Chapter 2, "Raising the Cry of Alarm: Popular Nationalism, World War Two, and the New Political Filmmaking," explores the popular discourse on fascism and antifascism, nationalism, nativism, and anti-Semitism from the 1930s through the end of World War Two, emphasizing Hollywood's role in the construction of a wartime popular nationalism. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In their representation, an antifascist commitment might be reinforced by personal motives such as revenge, but true antifascism was altruistic and uncompromisingly ideological. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He embodied great visions for postwar Italy: antifascism, the resurrection and rebuilding of the nation, and the emergence of the “new man” who had made it himself, without the old boy network. ❋ Daniel Yergin (2008)
