TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buruma,Ian
TI  - Theater of cruelty: art, film, and the shadows of war 
T2  - New York Review books collections
SN  - 9781590177778 (alk. paper)
AV  - D743.23 .B87 2014
U1  - 791.43/658405343 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York Review Books
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Motion pictures and the war
KW  - Art and the war
KW  - Literature and the war
KW  - War films
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - National socialism in motion pictures
KW  - Violence in motion pictures
KW  - War in art
KW  - National socialism in art
KW  - Violence in art
KW  - Distinguished Visitor
KW  - American Academy Writer-in-Residence
KW  - Class of Spring 2023
N2  - Theater of Cruelty has three main themes that frequently overlap: war, film, and the visual arts. Many of the movies discussed are about war and violence, often related to World War II, and more specifically deal with the two nations that unleashed the war, Germany and Japan: why they did what they did, and how they came to terms with it afterward or didn't. Other essays in the collection, about the diaries of Harry Kessler and Anne Frank, the bombing of German cities, Japan's kamikaze pilots further explore these themes. Many of the artists discussed by Buruma were German or Japanese, including Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Tsuguharu Foujita, as were the filmmakers Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, all of whom were affected in one way or another by fascism and its terrible consequences. Theater of Cruelty is less about war itself than the way people deal with violence and cruelty, in the arts and in life.--Amazon.com
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