Nazi cinema as enchantment : the politics of entertainment in the Third Reich
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Nazi cinema as enchantment : the politics of entertainment in the Third Reich
（Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture / edited by James Hardin）
Camden House, 2006
[Repr. pbk. ed.]
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-285) and index
1st published 2004
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Explores how entertainment cinema served everyday fascism in Nazi Germany.
Hitler's regime not only terrorized its citizens; it also seduced them, offering stability, a traditional value system, a sense of belonging, and hope of a better standard of living. Nazi cinema was part of this seduction, expressing positive social fantasies and promoting the enchantment of reality, so that one would want to share in the dream at any price. This interdisciplinary study, based on exhaustive research in German archives, examines how thirteen films from five genres - the historical musical, the foreign adventure film, the home-front film, the melodrama, and the problem film - enchanted audiences and enacted shared stories that can tell us much about how family, community, history, the nation, and the war were imagined in Nazi Germany.
Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien is Professor of German at Skidmore College.
Table of Contents
Introduction
History, Utopia, and the Social Construction of Happiness: The Historical Musical
Mapping German Identity: The Foreign Adventure Film
The Celluloid War: The Home-Front Film
Discontented Domesticity: The Melodrama
The Forbidden Desires of Everyday Life: The Problem Film
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index
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