Screen Nazis : cinema, history, and democracy / Sabine Hake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hake, Sabine, 1956-

Series:

Wisconsin film studies.

Wisconsin film studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nazis in motion pictures.

National socialism in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xiii, 308 pages.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Probing the emotional sources and effects of this fascination, Sabine Hake looks at the historical relationship between film and fascism and its far-reaching implications for mass culture, media society, and political life. In confronting the specter and spectacle of fascist power, these films not only depict historical figures and events but also demand emotional responses from their audiences, infusing the abstract ideals of democracy, liberalism, and pluralism with new meaning and relevance.

Contents:

Democracy in action : the Hollywood anti-Nazi films of the 1940's

Resistance to the resistance : denazification and democratization in 1950's West German cinema

Melancholy antifascism : the East German antifascist films of the 1960's and 1970's

Between art and exploitation : fascism and the politics of sexuality in 1970's Italian cinema

Postpolitical affects and intertextual effects : on Moloch and Inglourious basterds

Postfascist identity politics : European resistance films in the new millennium

Entombing of the Nazi past : on Downfall and historicism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780299287139

0299287130

9781283692120

1283692120

OCLC:

813392072