Leni Riefenstahl: The Last of the Nuba / People of Kau

Location: Yonge and College /downtown Toronto $20 each. Cash only; prices are firm. Shortly after the 1974 release of Riefenstahl's The Last of the Nuba in America, Susan Sontag scrutinized the "fascist aesthetics" of the work in her essay "Fascinating Fascism". Writing in the New York Review of Books in 1975, she stated: "The fascist dramaturgy centers on the orgiastic transactions between mighty forces and their puppets..." She continued, "Its choreography alternates between ceaseless motion and a congealed, static, 'virile' posing. Sontag wrote that the collection was the "final, necessary step in Riefenstahl's rehabilitation. It is the final rewrite of the past; or, for her partisans, the definitive confirmation that she was always a beauty-freak rather than a horrid propagandist..." Leni Riefenstahl: - The Last of the Nuba - People of Kau Feel free to check out my other book posts as well!