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It seems like Vienna has an endless supply of demented formalists whose mission is to detourn, deface and otherwise turn the remnants of official film history on its ear.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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It seems like Vienna has an endless supply of demented formalists whose mission is to detourn, deface and otherwise turn the remnants of official film history on its ear.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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But I suspect there’s an additional factor: We may not feel sufficiently confident in our ability to tame or detourn the Nazi aesthetic as we do its Soviet counterpart, precisely because Naziism was in some ways an essentially aesthetic movement — at its core a style as much as an ideology.
Soviet Chic 2007
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