The Last of the Nuba is about a primitivist ideal: a portrait of a people subsisting in a pure harmony with their environment, untouched by “civilization.” All four of Riefenstahl’s commissioned Nazi films—whether about Party congresses, the Wehrmacht, or athletes—celebrate the rebirth of the body and of community, mediated through the worship of an irresistible leader. March 14, 2012 / scriptease editions Susan Sontag_Fascinating Fascism_New York Review of Books_1975 https://diekunstderfugue.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/essay_susan-sontag_fascinating-fascism_new-york-review-of-books_1975/ article , susan sontag THE LAST OF THE NUBA by Leni Riefenstahl (1974) I First Exhibit. Here is a book of 126 splendid color photographs by Leni Riefenstahl , certainly the most ravishing book of photographs published anywhere in recent years. In the intractable mountains of the southern Sudan live about eight thousand aloof, godlike Nuba , emblems of physical perfection, with large, well-shaped,