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Fascism on the screen.(Film)(Critical essay)
BACK IN THE MID-1970s when Leni Riefenstahl was reinventing herself as a "documentary photographer", that very public New York intellectual Susan Sontag wrote an article titled "Fascinating Fascism". Among other things she attacked the evasions in Riefenstahl's self-descriptions in her two photographic books, The Last of the Nuba and The People of Kau. Riefenstahl, Sontag insisted, had been a willing collaborator in Nazi film-making, and what is more her work, including the photographic books, was fascist art; beautiful and compelling, but fascist.
For many of us discovering Riefenstahl's life and work at the time, Sontag's article seemed to have gone too far. ...
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