Entertaining the Third Reich : illusions of wholeness in Nazi cinema / Linda Schulte-Sasse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schulte-Sasse, Linda.

Series:

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National socialism and motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Germany.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Taking a look at Nazi cinema, this book examines Nazi films as movies that contain propaganda rather than as propaganda vehicles that happen to be movies. It is of interest to scholars involved in the study of cinema, popular culture, Nazism and Nazi art, the workings of fascist culture, and the history of modern ideology.

Contents:

1. Mass Spectacle, History, Cinema: Embodiments of Social Fantasy

2. Courtier, Vampire, or Vermin? Jew Suss's Contradictory Effort to Render the "Jew" Other

3. Frederick, the Movie; or, The Return of the King's Body: Fridericus and The Great King

4. Building the Body Armor: Hans Steinhoff's The Old and the Young King

5. Duel over the Son: Herbert Maisch's Friedrich Schiller

Triumph of a Genius

6. Anomaly or "Fascist Delusion of Female Autonomy"? Pabst's Neuberin Film Komodianten

7. Tribulations of a Genius: Traugott Muller's Friedemann Bach

8. Vicious Circulation: Money and Foreignness in Nazi Film. Movies about Money: Hans Zerlett's Robert and Bertram and Karl Hartl's Gold.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-330) and index.

Filmography: pages [331]-338.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822399872

0822399873

9780822318309

082231830X

OCLC:

1144915859