Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 485 g
The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich
Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 485 g
Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
ISBN: 978-1-57113-334-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
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.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
Weitere Infos & Material
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
