Cultural History through a National Socialist Lens - Essays on the Cinema of the Third Reich (Paperback, New Ed)

A fascinating look at Nazi Germany as revealed in its films. This collection of essays offers a view of Nazi Germany through an analysis of twenty films, representing a sampling of the period's directors and reflecting the film medium's major genres. In spite of the control that Goebbels's film industry exercised over all aspects of filmmaking in the Third Reich, the films reveal an individuality that belies subsuming them under any one rubric or containing them within any one theory. Films such as Hitlerjunge Quex, Die große Liebe, and Auf Wiedersehen Franziska represent the Nazi film industry's efforts to propagandize through entertainment. Others such as Immensee, Kleider machen Leute, and Der Schimmelreiter reveal an attempt to expropriate Germany's rich literary past for the regime. These literary adaptations and films like Glückskinder, La Habanera, and Der Kaiser von Kalifornien today seem void of Nazi ideology if viewed outside the context of Nazism. But another film, Der ewige Jude, shocks us with its virulent anti-Semitism and hateful propaganda almost sixty years after its release. All of the films treated, regardless of their fame or notoriety or the level of commitment of their directors to the Nazi cause, played an important role in a cinema that not only represents the dreams and lives of the citizens of the Third Reich, but influencedthem as well. Robert C. Reimer is professor of German at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

General

Imprint:	Camden House
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Release date:	October 2002
First published:	November 2002
Editors:	Robert C. Reimer (Author)
Contributors:	Cary Nathenson (Contributor) • David Bathrick (Contributor) • Florentine Strzelczyk (Contributor) • Franz Birgel (Contributor) • Heidi Faletti (Contributor) • Joan Clinefelter (Contributor) • John Davidson (Contributor) • Mary Elizabeth O'Brien (Customer) • Richard Rundell (Contributor)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	318
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-57113-134-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Fascism & Nazism Books > History > General
LSN:	1-57113-134-5
Barcode:	9781571131348

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