Futurism and Constructivism: Crash Course Theater #39

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
  • It's time to go Back...to the Future. By which I mean, we're going back into the past to talk about Futurism. Which seems like it would be cool, but it was started by this terrible guy Martinetti, who also wrote the Italian Fascist manifesto. He was just the worst, but, at least he was the worst in a way that makes a pretty compelling video.
    We'll also check in with the Russian theater, and learn about generally nicer Futurist Vsevolod Meyerhold, who also was vey influential in constructivism. So get ready to fire up the meaning machine and learn!
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  • @olivercuenca4109
    @olivercuenca4109 5 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    One of the other interesting results of futurism is its effect on comics. The obsession with capturing movement in still images created a style which is the direct origin of all those motion lines that a lot of comic strips use when things are zooming about.

    • @d.m.collins1501
      @d.m.collins1501 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Totally! They also played around with blurring the lines between poetry and visual art. They'd jack around with typeface or font, or the words would become red or dissipate off into the distance... they created a whole vocabulary of things to do with the point where visual art ended and the written word began, which is still being harvested for sequential art that combines words and images.

  • @Dovie0615
    @Dovie0615 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Thank you for single-handedly helping me save my college degree in theatre

  • @ChessMasteryOfficial
    @ChessMasteryOfficial 5 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    *Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'*

  • @d.m.collins1501
    @d.m.collins1501 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    "Our Futurist theater jeers at Shakespeare but pays attention to the gossip of actors." - Marinetti, 1915

  • @audreyrasmussen540
    @audreyrasmussen540 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    4:24 That almost reminds me of Hamilton's "actor playing a bullet" although it was more figurative than an actual gun.

  • @mojosbigsticks
    @mojosbigsticks 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Fascinating - an era I knew nothing about.

  • @FerdinandoFormica
    @FerdinandoFormica 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    A couple of corrections :P sintesi - stress on the first syllable; fiscofollia - stress on the last i (follia = madness)

  • @aspectaura
    @aspectaura 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    CrashCourse should have all the people who narrated each subject to have them all in 1 room for like an or something

  • @semkoops
    @semkoops 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Fascism was in a sense also a political subculture, certainly not the mainstream when it came up.

  • @lakrids-pibe
    @lakrids-pibe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    I didn't expect this series to give me a better understanding of internet alt right trolls.

    • @zennim125
      @zennim125 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      right?the realization futurism have been accidentally being reinvented by these crowds is fascinating

    • @alonealien1474
      @alonealien1474 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      My thoughts exactly! This episode also made me feel uncomfortable when I got to really thinking where we are headed with all of this.

    • @DarkAngelEU
      @DarkAngelEU 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Except Futurism has never left. Many skyscrapers are inspired by Futurism, some architects like to call themselves neo-Futurists and our economic system enforces Futurism. We live in a society that is aesthetically fascist and like it or not, these aesthetics carry ideas.

    • @andreascovano7742
      @andreascovano7742 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      man I love this echo chamber

    • @zennim125
      @zennim125 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@DarkAngelEU but we can't really give credit to the meme makers to being inspired by the movement
      i think it is a result of having the same circumstances that first created the movement being replicated today
      very much like dada is being reinvented

  • @KelciaMarie1
    @KelciaMarie1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    One of my favorite crash course series!

  • @ThinkFiveable
    @ThinkFiveable 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The theater playlist you guys are doing is so great! I wonder when College Board will create an AP theater!

  • @Rayan-is7ky
    @Rayan-is7ky 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Can you guys do a crash course video about agrobiology or maybe geology? please.

  • @conorita
    @conorita 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Bravo! Excellent episode.

  • @nikmed7848
    @nikmed7848 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Crash course should do a series on law!

  • @manuel-antoniomonteagudo6547
    @manuel-antoniomonteagudo6547 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    11:35 omg bionicle

  • @rajatarora9960
    @rajatarora9960 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    hey, guys do you also have a podcast channel?

  • @safir2241
    @safir2241 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    My future is about as certain as I am for my dad to not beat me

    • @jamit2u
      @jamit2u 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Safir sounds like you and your dad have plenty of good family time

  • @leticiatrindade1722
    @leticiatrindade1722 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very good video!

  • @gibberishname
    @gibberishname 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I like how this episode proves that NOT ALL art has merit.

    • @andreascovano7742
      @andreascovano7742 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      yeah, broadway is trash

    • @gibberishname
      @gibberishname 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@andreascovano7742 you obviously haven't seen Hamilton. i meant fascism. and spouting fascist manifestos.

  • @wk3820
    @wk3820 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Futurism also heavily influenced progressivism in the US.

    • @heraclesisidoro7874
      @heraclesisidoro7874 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No it didn't because one is actually progressive (futurist) whilst the other brands itself as such without merit to it (Progressive)

    • @yurimikhail6907
      @yurimikhail6907 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@heraclesisidoro7874 I'm guessing that your a Futurist.

  • @softly128
    @softly128 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This is what WWE is in a nutshell.

  • @doomstadt2371
    @doomstadt2371 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Jeeze, I know the philosophy behind it is atrocious, but some of those futurist paintings are absolutely gorgeous....

  • @SunriseFireberry
    @SunriseFireberry 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What's next, Mike does Musical Theatre?

  • @dustyhistory
    @dustyhistory 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Oh that guy from PBS.

  • @sirkowski
    @sirkowski 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    And the Nazis would later brand Futurism as Degenerate Art. They deserved that ironic slap.

  • @specialtramp
    @specialtramp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great episode, I learn so much! Can't wait until you get to Brecht and epic theater.

  • @vrixphillips
    @vrixphillips 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    ugh gross, I've been such a fan of Italian Futurism, but its ties to Fascism are foul indeed.
    Italian Futurist architecture looks super neato tho. Credit where credit's due, much as I despise what fascism stands for... makes me appreciate artists like composer Luigi Nono who were antifascist but still experimented and pushed the boundaries of art.

    • @vrixphillips
      @vrixphillips 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @2nd Amendment for Canada! oh no what will my fragile ego do with such a crushing insult
      i am slain

    • @vrixphillips
      @vrixphillips 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @2nd Amendment for Canada! nah, I've done the bootlickin' far-right schtick before. It's bs.
      I hope something similar for you though.
      For the record though, as an avowed anarcho-communist, I'm all for the second amendment. The working class should be armed to protect itself from the overreaching of governments more interested in protecting moneyed interests than following the will of the people.

    • @heraclesisidoro7874
      @heraclesisidoro7874 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Fascists can't be futurists because they glorify and romanticize the past, say the Roman Empire or Germanic Goths

    • @robinsss
      @robinsss 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      his movement should be called Italian futurism because futurism as a concept existed long before the Futurist Manifesto

    • @lakiog1938
      @lakiog1938 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@heraclesisidoro7874 No we don't lol fascism was always revolutionary and futurist

  • @pseudo.account
    @pseudo.account 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Do basically a sociopath decided he would found an art movement, and futurism is what resulted...

  • @camiloiribarren1450
    @camiloiribarren1450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    We gotta thank the Russians & Italians in France for sci-fi theater

  • @MrJuuustin28532
    @MrJuuustin28532 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I will gladly admit that the purple faces and violet back grounds have no effect on my short term memory and I forget as soon as I don't see.

  • @unleashingpotential-psycho9433
    @unleashingpotential-psycho9433 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice 👍🏾

  • @AshishGupta-ql9lq
    @AshishGupta-ql9lq 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    joseph really stallined futurism
    (i'll show myself out)

  • @gayatri-ydkh
    @gayatri-ydkh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can’t deny that what futurists did to the literature of their time has me seriously reconsidering all my life choices. Marinetti is my mustachioed homicidal alt ego😂? the collective of futurist manifestoes is a must read tho🌪

  • @sydneyroulhac8008
    @sydneyroulhac8008 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hey just watched your video in class , couldn’t understand a word you said. Maybe try slowing down just a little bit, since your videos are viewed in class and we answer questions on it. Thank you

    • @tjf4283
      @tjf4283 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stahhhhhp

    • @ms.rstake_1211
      @ms.rstake_1211 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Tell your teachers to reduce the speed. That's what you do when you want to take notes. I use to use subtitles but they no longer put them in a lot of their videos.

    • @robinsss
      @robinsss 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      his movement should be called Italian futurism because futurism as a concept existed long before the Futurist Manifesto

  • @geoffreywinn4031
    @geoffreywinn4031 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Educational!

  • @thebeatisdead
    @thebeatisdead 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    What I've learned; Italian Futurism theater is linked to fascism and that USSR theater was about the glory of Lenin and if you don't agree with that, then it's death by firing squad. This was a dark episode.

    • @LibertarianLeninistRants
      @LibertarianLeninistRants 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      nah, the arts flourished in Soviet Russia until Stalin came to power

    • @Dehumanizer22
      @Dehumanizer22 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      [citation needed]

    • @andreascovano7742
      @andreascovano7742 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@LibertarianLeninistRants they flourished under stalin aswell, propaganda is art

    • @melonlord1414
      @melonlord1414 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      The soviets knew better than anyone what power art can have. One of the reasons why their revolution workt, was because socialist and communist artists cultivated a deep discontent in the rusian workingclass. Once, because of the war, food was scarce, the disconted resulted in a movement to create better livingconditions for the workingclass.
      Once the revolution was over and Stalin got power, creating a mindset of content was neccesarry. So he got rid of all this talk of a better wold. The workers shold think, that they already live, in the better world.

  • @mjr_schneider
    @mjr_schneider 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    _*cueing horseshoe theory comment_

  • @honklerfinkelstein2113
    @honklerfinkelstein2113 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Maranetti dabbing on the moralists. Nice

    • @lambdacalculus3505
      @lambdacalculus3505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Marinetti's futurism was by nature a humanist project. He desired a system that the whole of humanity could reap its benefits from -- an ironic stance for someone who claimed to despise Utilitarianism and its pleasure arithmetic. Every cause he promoted acted either as an alter to sacrifice himself on or an idol to worship. Marienetti was half moralist, half politician, and overall a half poet. Recalling Nietzsche, the will to a system connotes a lack of integrity in an individual. Maybe this is telling.

    • @Boyd2342
      @Boyd2342 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lambdacalculus3505 What have you read to reach such heights of reality?

  • @benjaminnelson5455
    @benjaminnelson5455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Welcome to modern Hollywood, folks. What's old is new again.

  • @craigsteyntheartistcraig3592
    @craigsteyntheartistcraig3592 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    cool...subbed

  • @andreascovano7742
    @andreascovano7742 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No opera?

  • @aerodynamism5438
    @aerodynamism5438 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why Marinetti was a bad person?

  • @Felishamois
    @Felishamois 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Crash Course General Western Music Theory (with Jacob Collier?)
    Crash Course "Indian Music Theory" (??) (a person who knows their stuff, not a lot of resources out there for english-speakers)
    Crash Course Music Theories (with Herbie Hancock?)
    Crash Course Written (worldwide, like really) Music History (with Adam Neely? David Hudry?)
    Crash Course Popular (worldwide, like really) Music History (with Rick Beato??)
    (Crash Course Architecture)
    this could happen. in the next ten years. pls one day confirm.

  • @thepinomic
    @thepinomic 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    plz make a video for unilateralism.

  • @josephharden5592
    @josephharden5592 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's Punk Rock 🤘🏽😎

  • @educationyoutube9253
    @educationyoutube9253 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Crash Course GEOLOGY please

  • @FruityCHUNKZ46
    @FruityCHUNKZ46 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Who else wearing socks

    • @jamit2u
      @jamit2u 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      League Amino Acid Sox? Are you masterbaiting?

  • @Elfos64
    @Elfos64 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Still waiting for Japanese Henshin hero theater of the late 20th century.

  • @nils191
    @nils191 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    5:10 - 5:44
    Eh... What? That entire quote, the entire purpose of the act, was not to be bad. It was the show in-and-of-itself! He did that to create fights, to exalt the futurist manifesto into reality. To claim that an artist of such prestige be a bad person for practicing his art is preposterous. Take your moralism somewhere else, it just shows the pettiness and inability for the liberal mindset for new-thinking and progress.

  • @Vortex1000
    @Vortex1000 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello!!

  • @ahmedamine24
    @ahmedamine24 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Marinetti was the Joker?

  • @islamckenzie6519
    @islamckenzie6519 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I thought Marinetti was Italian??

    • @robinsss
      @robinsss 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      he was

  • @gayatri-ydkh
    @gayatri-ydkh 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for this episode Mike🧸🌸

  • @tomdarco2223
    @tomdarco2223 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love you tooo

  • @ms.rstake_1211
    @ms.rstake_1211 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yaasss!

  • @houston1293
    @houston1293 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It’s funny because I was draw into futurism because the Batman Animated Series mimicked a lot of the shading, importance of line and color. Now that know about what futurism, I’m disgusted.

  • @walkerstolenwerck4000
    @walkerstolenwerck4000 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    So bright 😆😆😆

  • @lenswideopen1062
    @lenswideopen1062 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    oh man!!

  • @PennyDreadful1
    @PennyDreadful1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I actually feel like maybe we should combine war romanticism with our modern worldview. Combine this knight of faith meaningfulness and willingness to suffer discomfort with a modern worldview. Also get back to taking a genetic or biological basis for human behaviour seriously and not assume that people are nazis whenever they do.

    • @jimbogringus6873
      @jimbogringus6873 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That's basically just Fascism but with a few euphemisms put in

  • @athenak8114
    @athenak8114 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    anyone else here to study for an uni assignment?

  • @danstiver9135
    @danstiver9135 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nothing good ever begins with a manifesto.

    • @theamici
      @theamici 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      A manifesto is a description of how something can come to be. Technically speaking, we produce manifestos all the time when we make reports and analysis that feature a description of our conditions, and how to go from where we are to reach some goal. We just usually describe it using a different word than "manifesto".

  • @DuranmanX
    @DuranmanX 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Marinetti was born before his time clearly

  • @davidcampos1463
    @davidcampos1463 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Although the angry artist has no place in the world, they can not be shot! They can only be left alone with their anger. Their anger will finish them off in due time.

  • @artificiallyflavord5588
    @artificiallyflavord5588 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sounds oddly like modern day "conservatives"

  • @anthonywolf943
    @anthonywolf943 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dark

  • @riboflavin4697
    @riboflavin4697 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    movies

  • @harrisoncloud2115
    @harrisoncloud2115 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    He wanted the NFL

  • @aidanwilliams4820
    @aidanwilliams4820 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    First comment

  • @211212112
    @211212112 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So am I right to find this channel is against fascism, but for communism/socialism? Cause communists are like an order or two of magnitude worse than nazis...

  • @camperiv1
    @camperiv1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh no not facsists!!11

  • @NeonsStyleHD
    @NeonsStyleHD 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Marinetti and his views belong in the past, and like Musolini should be forgotten! Trump would like him though.

  • @Abysmal778
    @Abysmal778 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    FIRST

  • @_aswin_rs2868
    @_aswin_rs2868 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hit the like button before this comment fade away.