Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s

Leftist 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. Through careful readings of Matsumoto Toshio, Jean—Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, Hani Susumu, and others, Julia Alekseyeva...