Movie Censorship In Germany

Author : Max Heitzer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783656584513

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Movie Censorship in Germany by Max Heitzer Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,7, University of Applied Sciences Köln RFH, language: English, abstract: Although article 5 of the German constitution says that ”There shall be no censorship.“ and ”Art [...] shall be free.“ the reality looks different. Mainly movies and especially the horror genre often have problems with their aimed rating before they are published. In spite of an existing prohibition of censorship movies are cut down to be less harmful to youngsters and children although they are only suitable for adults anyway. But how does this procedure work? Which laws restrict the constitution and when are they applied? After a short definition of the word censorship, an introduction of the most important institutions and a view of the general censorship situation in Germany this term paper shall make clear that: Movie censorship is not necessary (in Germany).

Author : D. Biltereyst,R. Vande Winkel,Roel Vande Winkel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137061980

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Silencing Cinema by D. Biltereyst,R. Vande Winkel,Roel Vande Winkel Pdf

Oppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on film censorship in major film production countries and explore such innovative themes as film censorship and authorship, religion, and colonialism.

Author : Kara L. Ritzheimer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107132047

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'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century Germany by Kara L. Ritzheimer Pdf

A legal and cultural history of censorship, youth protection, and national identity in early twentieth-century Germany.

Author : Zonal Film Archives (Hamburg, Germany),John Frank Kelson,Kenneth R. M. Short
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018338447

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Catalogue of Forbidden German Feature and Short Film Productions by Zonal Film Archives (Hamburg, Germany),John Frank Kelson,Kenneth R. M. Short Pdf

Compiled as a tool for re-educating the population of the three western zones of Occupation, this catalog lists 395 features, feature-length documentaries, and short films that were forbidden for public exhibition. The Zonal Film Archives originally held some 3200 feature titles and 2500 short titles. After viewing, those found to be harmless were returned to their owners, leaving the forbidden films documented in this catalog. Each film entry gives credits (year, production, director, cast) together with an evaluation of the content. The films are listed in two sections: first, feature/feature-length documentaries and, second, shorts. They are further subdivided according to character and purpose (anti-American propaganda, or Nazi architectural propaganda, for example). There is a complete index of film titles and a list of all films produced in Germany between 1933 and 1945 by the Propaganda Ministry. An extensive introduction by noted historian K. R. M. Short places the work and a selection of related documents in full historical perspective. This catalog is a pivotal document for understanding the policies used to reconstruct and re-educate Germany between 1945 and 1951. As such it is invaluable to historians of Nazi and post-war Germany.

Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013326981

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The German Fifth Column in the Second World War by Annette Kuhn Pdf

Originally published in English in 1956, this book is divided into 3 parts : the first outlines how, after 1933, those outside Germany began to become increasingly afraid of sinister operations on the part of German agents and the partisans of National Socialism. The second part examines the role of the German Fifth column during the war and the third part analyses the role of the groups which were living outside Germany at the time Hitler started his assault.

Author : Heide Fehrenbach
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861370

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Cinema in Democratizing Germany by Heide Fehrenbach Pdf

Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she explores the complex political uses of film--and the meanings attributed to film representation and spectatorship--during a period of abrupt transition to democracy. According to Fehrenbach, the process of national redefinition made cinema and cinematic control a focus of heated ideological debate. Moving beyond a narrow political examination of Allied-German negotiations, she investigates the broader social nexus of popular moviegoing, public demonstrations, film clubs, and municipal festivals. She also draws on work in gender and film studies to probe the ways filmmakers, students, church leaders, local politicians, and the general public articulated national identity in relation to the challenges posed by military occupation, American commercial culture, and redefined gender roles. Thus highlighting the links between national identity and cultural practice, this book provides a richer picture of what German reconstruction entailed for both women and men.

Author : Hester Baer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857456175

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Dismantling the Dream Factory by Hester Baer Pdf

The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer reassesses this period, looking in particular at how the attempt to 'dismantle the dream factory' of Nazi entertainment cinema resulted in a new cinematic language which developed as a result of the changing audience demographic. In an era when female viewers comprised 70 per cent of cinema audiences a 'women's cinema' emerged, which sought to appeal to female spectators through its genres, star choices, stories and formal conventions. In addition to analyzing the formal language and narrative content of these films, Baer uses a wide array of other sources to reconstruct the original context of their reception, including promotional and publicity materials, film programs, censorship documents, reviews and spreads in fan magazines. This book presents a new take on an essential period, which saw the rebirth of German cinema after its thorough delegitimization under the Nazi regime.

Author : Thomas Doherty
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231535144

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Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939 by Thomas Doherty Pdf

Between 1933 and 1939, representations of the Nazis and the full meaning of Nazism came slowly to Hollywood, growing more ominous and distinct only as the decade wore on. Recapturing what ordinary Americans saw on the screen during the emerging Nazi threat, Thomas Doherty reclaims forgotten films, such as Hitler's Reign of Terror (1934), a pioneering anti-Nazi docudrama by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.; I Was a Captive of Nazi Germany (1936), a sensational true tale of "a Hollywood girl in Naziland!"; and Professor Mamlock (1938), an anti-Nazi film made by German refugees living in the Soviet Union. Doherty also recounts how the disproportionately Jewish backgrounds of the executives of the studios and the workers on the payroll shaded reactions to what was never simply a business decision. As Europe hurtled toward war, a proxy battle waged in Hollywood over how to conduct business with the Nazis, how to cover Hitler and his victims in the newsreels, and whether to address or ignore Nazism in Hollywood feature films. Should Hollywood lie low, or stand tall and sound the alarm? Doherty's history features a cast of charismatic personalities: Carl Laemmle, the German Jewish founder of Universal Pictures, whose production of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) enraged the nascent Nazi movement; Georg Gyssling, the Nazi consul in Los Angeles, who read the Hollywood trade press as avidly as any studio mogul; Vittorio Mussolini, son of the fascist dictator and aspiring motion picture impresario; Leni Riefenstahl, the Valkyrie goddess of the Third Reich who came to America to peddle distribution rights for Olympia (1938); screenwriters Donald Ogden Stewart and Dorothy Parker, founders of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League; and Harry and Jack Warner of Warner Bros., who yoked anti-Nazism to patriotic Americanism and finally broke the embargo against anti-Nazi cinema with Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939).

Author : James C. Robertson,James Crighton Robertson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Censorship
ISBN : 0709922701

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The British Board of Film Censors by James C. Robertson,James Crighton Robertson Pdf

Author : Norman Spinrad
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575117228

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The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad Pdf

Norman Spinrad's 1972 alternate history, gives us both a metafictional what-if novel and a cutting satire of one of the 20th century's most evil regimes . . . In 1919, a young Austrian artist by the name of Adolf Hitler immigrated to the United States to become an illustrator for the pulp magazines and, eventually, a Hugo Award-winning SF author. This volume contains his greatest work, Lord of the Swastika: an epic post-apocalyptic tale of genetic 'trueman' Feric Jagger and his quest to purify the bloodline of humanity by ruthlessly slaughtering races of the genetically impure - a quest Norman Spinrad expertly skewers through ironic imagery and over-the-top rhetoric. Spinrad hoped to expose some unpalatable truths about much of SF and Fantasy literature and its uncomfortable relationship with fascist ideologies - an aim that was not always apparent to neo-fascist readers. In order to make his aims clear to the hard-of-understanding, Spinrad added an imaginary critical analysis by a fictional literary scholar, Homer Whipple, of New York University.

Author : Francis G. Couvares
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1558495754

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Movie Censorship and American Culture by Francis G. Couvares Pdf

From the earliest days of public outrage over "indecent" nickelodeon shows, Americans have worried about the power of the movies. The eleven essays in this book examine nearly a century of struggle over cinematic representations of sex, crime, violence, religion, race, and ethnicity, revealing that the effort to regulate the screen has reflected deep social and cultural schisms. In addition to the editor, contributors include Daniel Czitrom, Marybeth Hamilton, Garth Jowett, Charles Lyons, Richard Maltby, Charles Musser, Alison M. Parker, Charlene Regester, Ruth Vasey, and Stephen Vaughn. Together they make it clear that censoring the movies is more than just a reflex against "indecency," however defined. Whether censorship protects the vulnerable or suppresses the creative, it is part of a broader culture war that breaks out recurrently as Americans try to come to terms with the market, the state, and the plural society in which they live.

Author : Heide Fehrenbach
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015034203177

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Cinema in Democratizing Germany by Heide Fehrenbach Pdf

Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity After Hitler

Author : Brigitta B. Wagner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781571135827

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DEFA After East Germany by Brigitta B. Wagner Pdf

Paints a complex portrait of East German film art and representation through examining eighteen key DEFA films following the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, East Germany's DEFA filmmakers had a brief window in which to critique GDR society on either side of the Wende, the sweeping political turn that surrounded the fall of the Berlin Wall andthe opening of the border. Building on the DEFA Film Library's retrospective Wende Flicks series and Indiana University's DEFA Project, this study examines the newly rediscovered filmic artifacts of this transitional cinema, introducing eighteen key films from 1988 to 1994 in essays by German scholars, film professionals, and cultural figures. Accompanying interviews and historical film reviews present a complex portrait of East German film art, itscommunist bloc influences, and its legacy for contemporary German film culture. The resulting anthology combines historical, autobiographical, cultural-political, and journalistic discourses to explore the tension between the hopes and frustrations these films express, the historical exigencies that overshadowed their production and reception, and the politics of their revival. Contributors: Skyler J. Arndt-Briggs, Peter Blank, Claudia Breger, Barton Byg, Knut Elstermann, Peter Kahane, Jennifer M. Kapczynski, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Thomas Krüger, Helmut Morsbach, Benjamin Robinson, Katrin Schlösser and Frank Löprich, Nicholas Sveholm, Johannes von Moltke, Brigitta B. Wagner. Brigitta B. Wagner is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Film Studies at the Freie Universität and in Time-Based Media at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.

Author : John F. Kelson,Kenneth R. M. Short
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0948911190

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Catalogue of Forbidden German Feature and Short Film Productions Held in Zonal Film Archives of Film Section, Information Services Division, Control Commission for Germany, (BE) by John F. Kelson,Kenneth R. M. Short Pdf

Author : Jeremy Geltzer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781477307434

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Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures by Jeremy Geltzer Pdf

Boxing, porn, and the beginnings of movie censorship -- The rise of salacious cinema -- State regulations emerge -- Mutual and the capacity for evil -- War, nudity, and birth control -- Self-regulation reemerges -- Midnight movies and sanctioned cinema -- Sound enters the debate -- Tension increases between free speech and state censorship -- Threats from abroad and domestic disturbances -- Outlaws and miracles -- State censorship statutes on the defense -- Devil in the details : film and the Fourth and Fifth Amendments -- Dirty words : profanity and the patently offensive -- Filthy pictures : obscenity from nudie cuties to fetish films -- The porno chic : from Danish loops to Deep throat -- Just not here : content regulation through zoning -- Is censorship necessary? -- The politics of profanity