Koutsourakis, A orcid.org/0000-0001-6090-4798 (Cover date: September 2023) Kafkaesque Cinema in the Context of Post-fascism. Modernism/Modernity, 30 (3). pp. 449-472. ISSN 1071-6068
Abstract
This article discusses Kafkaesque cinema as a response to historical conditions of post-fascism through the close-reading of three films: Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962), Béla Tarr's Werckmeister harmóniák (Werckmeister Harmonies, 2000), and Christian Petzold's Transit (2018). Important interlocutors are the Hungarian philosopher Gáspár Miklós Tamás and the Italian historian Enzo Traverso; both understand post-fascism as a historical condition that perpetuates fascism's hostility to the Enlightenment, but which, however, permeates even mainstream politics. Drawing on their work, the article shows how the films' Kafkaesque aesthetic and themes invite us to consider the link between post-fascism and the defeat of the radicalized Enlightenment thought.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 Johns Hopkins University Press. This is an author produced version of an article published in Modernism/Modernity. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > German (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) AH/T005750/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2021 14:03 |
Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2024 15:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1353/mod.2023.a920252 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:179094 |