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The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism (Culture and the Moving Image Series)
The Red Atlantis Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism - Culture and the Moving Image Series Author:J. Hoberman For most of the twentieth century, American and European intellectual life was defined by its fascination with a particular utopian vision. Both the artistic and political vanguards were spellbound by the Communist promise of a new human eraso much so that its political terrors were rationalized as a form of applied evolution and its colla... more »pse hailed as the end of history. The Red Atlantis argues that Communism produced a complex culture with a dialectical relation to both modernism and itself. Offering examples ranging from the Stalinist show trial to Franz Kafka's posthumous career as a dissident writer and the work of filmmakers, painters, and writers, which can be understood only as criticism of existing socialism made from within, The Red Atlantis suggests that Communism was an aesthetic projectperhaps the aesthetic project of the twentieth century.« less