Cultural history through a National Socialist lens : essays on the cinema of the third reich
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Cultural history through a National Socialist lens : essays on the cinema of the third reich
（Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture / edited by James Hardin）
Camden House, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-284) and index
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Description
This collection of essays offers a view of Nazi Germany through an analysis of twenty films. These represent a sampling of the period's directors and reflect the film medium's major genres. For 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 Gluckskinder, La Habanera, and Der Kaiser von Kalifornien today seem void of Nazi ideology ifviewed outside the context of Nazism. Yet 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 influenced them as well.
Robert C. Reimer is professor of German at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Modernity Writ German: State of the Art as Art of the Nazi State - David Bathrick Reflections of Weimar Cinema in the Nazi Propaganda Films SA-Mann Brand, Hitlerjunge Quex, and Hans Westmar - Heidi Faletti Luis Trenker: A Rebel in the Third Reich? Der Rebell, Der verlorene Sohn, and Der Kaiser von Kalifornien, Condottieri, and Der FeuerteufelCondottieri, and Der Feuerteufel - Franz Birgel The Director and the Diva: The Film Musicals of Detlef Sierck and Zarah Leander: Zu neuen Ufern and La Habanera - Thomas Nadar Fear of Flying: Education to Manhood in nazi Film Commedies: Gluckskinder and Quax, der Bruchpilot - Cary Nathenson Far Away, So Close: Carl Froelich's Heimat - Florentine Strzelczyk A Cinematic Construction of Nazi Anti-Semitism: The Documentary Der ewige Jude - Joan Clinefelter Escaping Home: Leni Riefenstahl's Visual Poetry in Tiefland - Roger Russi Literary Nazis? Adapting Nineteenth-Century German Novellas for the Screen: Der Schimmelreiter, Kleider Machen Leute, and ImmenseeImmensee - Richard Rundell The Spectacle of War in Die grosse Liebe - Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien Turning Inward: An Analysis of Helmut Kautner's Auf Wiedersehen, Franziska
- Romanze in Moll
- Unter den Brucken - Working for the Man, Whoever That May Be: The Vocation of Wolfgang Liebeneiner - John Davidson
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