Through a series of detailed film case histories ranging from The Great Dictator to Hiroshima mon amour to The Lives of Others, The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection explores the genesis and recurrence of antifascist aesthetics as it manifests in the WWII, Cold War and Post-Wall historical periods. "Barker's magisterial treatment of 70 years of international film history traces the power of cinematic art to resist the fascinations of fascism." --Russell Berman, Stanford University