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An interactive story for ages 4-10. The Anderson family always
loved to travel and experience new adventures. After climbing the
Alps, going on Safari and riding elephants in India, they decided
to embark on an adventure in outer space. The Andersons had so much
fun on planet Luna-Love, they decided to settle there and live
happily ever after. Years later, their descendants time travel back
to Earth for a visit, but to everyone's surprise, the visitors are
as tall as giants. The neighbors are happy to see the giant
Andersons, but are worried because they could step on cars and
houses, causing problems in the neighborhood. In this joyful tale,
the reader is encouraged to help the hosts create solutions so
everyone will enjoy the visit. Along the way, the story gives the
reader an opportunity to spot his or her gifts and talents. A
journal is included to record the activities they like to do, to
recognize the talents of others and learn how everyone can work
together.
In this persuasive reversal of previous scholarship, Linda
Schulte-Sasse takes an unorthodox look at Nazi cinema, examining
Nazi films as movies that contain propaganda rather than as
propaganda vehicles that happen to be movies. Like other Nazi
artistic productions, Nazi film has long been regarded as kitsch
rather than art, and therefore unworthy of critical textual
analysis. By reading these films as consumer entertainment,
Schulte-Sasse reveals the similarities between Nazi commercial film
and classical Hollywood cinema and, with this shift in emphasis,
demonstrates how Hollywood-style movie formulas frequently
compromised Nazi messages. Drawing on theoretical work,
particularly that of Lacan and Zizek, Schulte-Sasse shows how films
such as Jew Susss and The Great King construct fantasies of social
harmony, often through distorted versions of familiar stories from
eighteenth-century German literature, history, and philosophy.
Schulte-Sasse observes, for example, that Nazi films, with their
valorization of bourgeois culture and use of familiar narrative
models, display a curious affinity with the world of Enlightenment
culture that the politics of National Socialism would seem to
contradict. Schulte-Sasse argues that film served National
Socialism less because of its ideological homogeneity than because
of the appeal and familiarity of its underlying literary paradigms
and because the medium itself guarantees a pleasurable illusion of
wholeness. Entertaining the Third Reich will be of interest to a
wide range of scholars, including those engaged in the study of
cinema, popular culture, Nazism and Nazi art, the workings of
fascist culture, and the history of modern ideology.
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