Futurism and Constructivism: Crash Course Theater #39

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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[@Dovie0615]

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

[@olivercuenca4109]

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]

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.

[@ChessMasteryOfficial]

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

[@d.m.collins1501]

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

[@audreyrasmussen540]

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

[@mojosbigsticks]

Fascinating - an era I knew nothing about.

[@aspectaura]

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

[@FerdinandoFormica]

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

[@lakrids-pibe]

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

[@zennim125]

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

[@alonealien1474]

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]

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]

man I love this echo chamber

[@zennim125]

@@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

[@semkoops]

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

[@Rayan-is7ky]

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

[@manuel-antoniomonteagudo6547]

11:35 omg bionicle

[@nikmed7848]

Crash course should do a series on law!

[@wk3820]

Futurism also heavily influenced progressivism in the US.

[@heraclesisidoro7874]

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

[@yurimikhail6907]

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

[@softly128]

This is what WWE is in a nutshell.

[@rajatarora9960]

hey, guys do you also have a podcast channel?

[@safir2241]

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

[@jamit2u]

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

[@gibberishname]

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

[@andreascovano7742]

yeah, broadway is trash

[@gibberishname]

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

[@ThinkFiveable]

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

[@KelciaMarie1]

One of my favorite crash course series!

[@sirkowski]

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

[@ms.rstake_1211]

Lol

[@heraclesisidoro7874]

Don't even bring them up

[@lakiog1938]

I don't care what they did i care about mussolini

[@dustyhistory]

Oh that guy from PBS.

[@SunriseFireberry]

What's next, Mike does Musical Theatre?

[@conorita]

Bravo! Excellent episode.

[@andreascovano7742]

No opera?

[@vrixphillips]

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]

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

[@vrixphillips]

@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]

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

[@robinsss]

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

[@lakiog1938]

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

[@honklerfinkelstein2113]

Maranetti dabbing on the moralists. Nice

[@lambdacalculus3505]

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]

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

[@doomstadt2371]

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

[@leticiatrindade1722]

Very good video!

[@pseudo.account]

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

[@mjr_schneider]

_*cueing horseshoe theory comment_

[@camiloiribarren1450]

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

[@MrJuuustin28532]

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]

Nice 👍🏾

[@AshishGupta-ql9lq]

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

[@benjaminnelson5455]

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

[@aerodynamism5438]

Why Marinetti was a bad person?

[@specialtramp]

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

[@sydneyroulhac8008]

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]

Stahhhhhp

[@ms.rstake_1211]

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]

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

[@educationyoutube9253]

Crash Course GEOLOGY please

[@thebeatisdead]

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]

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

[@Dehumanizer22]

[citation needed]

[@andreascovano7742]

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

[@melonlord1414]

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.

[@gayatri-ydkh]

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🌪

[@thepinomic]

plz make a video for unilateralism.

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Educational!

[@josephharden5592]

It's Punk Rock 🤘🏽😎

[@craigsteyntheartistcraig3592]

cool...subbed

[@islamckenzie6519]

I thought Marinetti was Italian??

[@robinsss]

he was

[@Vortex1000]

Hello!!

[@Elfos64]

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

[@ahmedamine24]

Marinetti was the Joker?

[@Felishamois]

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.

[@tomdarco2223]

I love you tooo

[@lenswideopen1062]

oh man!!

[@nils191]

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.

[@walkerstolenwerck4000]

So bright 😆😆😆

[@ms.rstake_1211]

Yaasss!

[@ms.rstake_1211]

LOVE THIS SERIES!

[@riboflavin4697]

movies

[@FruityCHUNKZ46]

Who else wearing socks

[@jamit2u]

League Amino Acid Sox? Are you masterbaiting?

[@gayatri-ydkh]

Thank you for this episode Mike🧸🌸

[@artificiallyflavord5588]

Sounds oddly like modern day "conservatives"

[@danstiver9135]

Nothing good ever begins with a manifesto.

[@theamici]

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".

[@anthonywolf943]

Dark

[@DuranmanX]

Marinetti was born before his time clearly

[@houston1293]

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.

[@PennyDreadful1]

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]

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

[@davidcampos1463]

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.

[@athenak8114]

anyone else here to study for an uni assignment?

[@aidanwilliams4820]

First comment

[@211212112]

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...

[@harrisoncloud2115]

He wanted the NFL

[@camperiv1]

Oh no not facsists!!11

[@NeonsStyleHD]

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

[@Abysmal778]

FIRST

[@_aswin_rs2868]

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