The Third Reich on screen, 1929-2015 / Bob Herzberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herzberg, Bob, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National socialism in motion pictures.

National socialism and motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Nazis in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 203 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]

Summary:

"Drawing on studio files, Production Code office correspondence and the writings of noted historians and critics, this book describes the making of many films produced in Hollywood, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc nations. Biographies of several military and political figures who served as the basis for Nazi characters compare the cinematic and real-life versions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Infection (1929/1937): Weimar-era filmmaking and the disease taking root in Germany

Rage (1938/1941): as Nazi aggression spreads across Europe, voices of defiance are finally heard

Inferno (1942/1945): America enters World War II as the combatants attack each other on-screen as well as off

Final solutions (1946/1954): postwar Hollywood and Washington continue to ignore the Holocaust even as Nazi war criminals are hunted down on-screen

Airbrush (1955/1962): both Hollywood and Germany rewrite history as it condemns Nazism while praising "good Germans" in war-themed films

Meshugannah (1963/1980): mad doctors, Nazi zombies, attempts to revive Hitler, death camp perverts and Ships of fools

Ghosts (1981/2015): concentration camp children appear as next-door neighbors, we find out what it's like to be Hitler's secretary, and Nazi zombies return (with a vengeance!).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476664262

1476664269

OCLC:

952390183