Nazi Cinema As Enchantment

Author : Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1571133348

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Nazi Cinema as Enchantment by Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien Pdf

The Nazi regime did not merely terrorize its citizens into submission; it also seduced them by offering stability, a traditional value system, a sense of belonging, and hope of a better standard of living. Nazi cinema's popularity rested on its ability to express positive social fantasies and promote the enchantment of reality, so that one would want to share in the dream at any price. This is an interdisciplinary study, written for scholars and students in the fields of film studies, German studies, history, critical studies, and political science, that explores how cinema participated in the larger framework of everyday fascism. The book examines how five film 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. The book analyzes thirteen motion pictures, many of which are not well known to English-speaking audiences: Wunschkonzert, Die große Liebe, Tanz auf dem Vulkan, Damals, Die Degenhardts, Opfergang, Kautschuk, Robert und Bertram, Verklungene Melodie, Frauen für Golden Hill, Das Leben kann so schön sein, Der verzauberte Tag, and Via Mala. Based on exhaustive research in German archives, the book examines, in addition to the films themselves, articles from the propaganda ministry's official organ, Der deutsche Film, daily trade sheets, fan magazines, and even studio press packages for individual stars and films. Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien is Professor of German at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 157113283X

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Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erwin Leiser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UCSC:32106017686558

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Nazi Cinema by Erwin Leiser Pdf

Author : Eric Rentschler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780674266629

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Ministry of Illusion by Eric Rentschler Pdf

German cinema of the Third Reich, even a half-century after Hitler's demise, still provokes extreme reactions. "Never before and in no other country," observes director Wim Wenders, "have images and language been abused so unscrupulously as here, never before and nowhere else have they been debased so deeply as vehicles to transmit lies." More than a thousand German feature films that premiered during the reign of National Socialism survive as mementoes of what many regard as film history's darkest hour. As Eric Rentschler argues, however, cinema in the Third Reich emanated from a Ministry of Illusion and not from a Ministry of Fear. Party vehicles such as Hitler Youth Quex and anti-Semitic hate films such as Jew Süss may warrant the epithet "Nazi propaganda," but they amount to a mere fraction of the productions from this era. The vast majority of the epoch's films seemed to be "unpolitical"--melodramas, biopix, and frothy entertainments set in cozy urbane surroundings, places where one rarely sees a swastika or hears a "Sieg Heil." Minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels, Rentschler shows, endeavored to maximize film's seductive potential, to cloak party priorities in alluring cinematic shapes. Hitler and Goebbels were master showmen enamored of their media images, the Third Reich was a grand production, the Second World War a continuing movie of the week. The Nazis were movie mad, and the Third Reich was movie made. Rentschler's analysis of the sophisticated media culture of this period demonstrates in an unprecedented way the potent and destructive powers of fascination and fantasy. Nazi feature films--both as entities that unreeled in moviehouses during the regime and as productions that continue to enjoy wide attention today--show that entertainment is often much more than innocent pleasure.

Author : Linda Schulte-Sasse
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0822318245

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Entertaining the Third Reich by Linda Schulte-Sasse Pdf

On Nazi cinema

Author : Roel Vande Winkel,D. Welch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230289321

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Cinema and the Swastika by Roel Vande Winkel,D. Welch Pdf

This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically, politically and culturally - the film industries of 20 countries and regions either occupied by, friendly with or neutral towards Nazi Germany.

Author : Eric Rentschler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : OCLC:1388520988

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The Ministry of Illusion by Eric Rentschler Pdf

German cinema of the Third Reich, even a half-century after Hitler's demise, still provokes extreme reactions. More than a thousand German feature films that premiered during the reign of National Socialism survive as mementoes of what many regard as film history's darkest hour. As Eric Rentschler argues, however, cinema in the Third Reich emanated from a Ministry of Illusion and not from a Ministry of Fear. Party vehicles such as Hitler Youth Quex and anti-Semitic hate films such as Jew Suss may warrant the epithet "Nazi propaganda," but they amount to a mere fraction of the productions from this era. The vast majority of the epoch's films seemed to be "unpolitical"--Melodramas, biopics, and frothy entertainments set in cozy urbane surroundings, places where one rarely sees a swastika or hears a "Sieg Heil." Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, Rentschler shows, endeavored to maximize film's seductive potential, to cloak party priorities in alluring cinematic shapes. Hitler and Goebbels were master showmen enamored of their media images, the Third Reich was a grand production. The Nazis were movie mad, and the Third Reich was movie made. Rentschler's analysis of the sophisticated media culture of this period demonstrates in an unprecedented way the potent and destructive powers of fascination and fantasy. Nazi feature films--both as entities that unreeled in moviehouses during the regime and as productions that continue to enjoy wide attention today--show that entertainment is often much more than innocent pleasure.

Author : Susan G. Figge,Jenifer K. Ward
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571134448

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Reworking the German Past by Susan G. Figge,Jenifer K. Ward Pdf

Coming to terms with the past has been a preoccupation within German culture and German Studies since the Second World War. In addition, there has been a surge of interest in adaptation of literary works in recent years. Numerous volumes have theorized, chronicled, or analyzed adaptations from novel to film, asking how and why adaptations are undertaken and what happens when a text is adapted in a particular historical context. With its focus on adaptation of twentieth-century German texts not only from one medium to another but also from one cultural moment to another, the present collection resides at the intersection of these two areas of inquiry. The ten essays treat a variety of media. Each considers the way in which a particular adaptation alters a story - or history - for a subsequent audience, taking into account the changing context in which the retelling takes place and the evolution of cultural strategies for coming to terms with the past. The resulting case studies find in the retellings potentially corrective versions of the stories for changing times. The volume makes the case that adaptation studies are particularly well suited for tracing Germany's obsessive cultural engagement with its twentieth-century history. Contributors: Elizabeth Baer, Rachel Epp Buller, Maria Euchner, Richard C. Figge, Susan G. Figge, Mareike Hermann, Linda Hutcheon, Irene Lazda, Cary Nathenson, Thomas Sebastian, Sunka Simon, Jenifer K. Ward. Susan G. Figge is Professor of German Emeritus at the College of Wooster, Ohio, and Jenifer K. Ward is Associate Provost, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle.

Author : David Stewart Hull
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Film in the Third Reich by David Stewart Hull Pdf

Author : Rolf Giesen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476612690

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Nazi Propaganda Films by Rolf Giesen Pdf

Hitler and the Nazis saturated their country with many types of propaganda to convince the German citizenry that the Nazi ideology was the only ideology. One type of propaganda that the Nazis relied on heavily was cinematic. This work focuses on Nazi propaganda feature films and feature-length documentaries made in Germany between 1933 and 1945 and released to the public. Some of them were Staatsauftragsfilme, films produced by order of and financed by the Third Reich. The films are arranged by subject and then alphabetically, and complete cast and production credits are provided for each. Short biographies of actors, directors, producers, and other who were involved in the making of Nazi propaganda films are also provided.

Author : David Welch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857715951

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Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-1945 by David Welch Pdf

This is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Nazi film propaganda in its political, social, and economic contexts, from the pre-war cinema as it fell under the control of the Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, through to the end of the Second World War. David Welch studies more than one hundred films of all types, identifying those aspects of Nazi ideology that were concealed in the framework of popular entertainment.

Author : Pavel Skopal,Roel Vande Winkel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030616342

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Film Professionals in Nazi-Occupied Europe by Pavel Skopal,Roel Vande Winkel Pdf

This book analyses the film industries and cinema cultures of Nazi-occupied countries (1939-1945) from the point of view of individuals: local captains of industry, cinema managers, those working for film studios and officials authorized to navigate film policy. The book considers these people from a historical perspective, taking into account their career before the occupation and, where relevant, pays attention to their post-war lives. The perspectives of these historical agents” contributes to an understanding of how top-down orders and haphazard signals from the occupying administration were moulded, adjusted and distorted in the process of their translation and implementation. This edited collection offers a more dynamic and less deterministic approach to research on the international expansion of Third-Reich cinema in World War Two; an approach that strives to balance the role of individual agency with the structural determinants. The case studies presented in this book cover the territories of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and the Soviet Union.

Author : David Stewart Hull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UVA:X000920227

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Film in the Third Reich; Art and Propaganda in Nazi Germany by David Stewart Hull Pdf

Author : Laura Heins
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252095023

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Nazi Film Melodrama by Laura Heins Pdf

Cultural productions in the Third Reich often served explicit propaganda functions of legitimating racism and glorifying war and militarism. Likewise, the proliferation of domestic and romance films in Nazi Germany also represented an ideological stance. Rather than reinforcing traditional gender role divisions and the status quo of the nuclear family, these films were much more permissive about desire and sexuality than previously assumed. Focusing on German romance films, domestic melodramas, and home front films from 1933 to 1945, Nazi Film Melodrama shows how melodramatic elements in Nazi cinema functioned as part of a project to move affect, body, and desire beyond the confines of bourgeois culture and participate in a curious modernization of sexuality engineered to advance the imperialist goals of the Third Reich. Offering a comparative analysis of Nazi productions with classical Hollywood films of the same era, Laura Heins argues that German fascist melodramas differed from their American counterparts in their negative views of domesticity and in their use of a more explicit antibourgeois rhetoric. Nazi melodramas, film writing, and popular media appealed to viewers by promoting liberation from conventional sexual morality and familial structures, presenting the Nazi state and the individual as dynamic and revolutionary. Some spectators objected to the eroticization and modernization of the public sphere under Nazism, however, pitting Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda against more conservative film audiences in a war over the very status of domesticity and the shape of the family. Drawing on extensive archival research, this perceptive study highlights the seemingly contradictory aspects of gender representation and sexual morality in Nazi-era cinema.

Author : Robert G. Weiner,John Cline
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810876576

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Cinema Inferno by Robert G. Weiner,John Cline Pdf

This is a provocative collection of essays that provide cutting edge, original research in film studies, discussing a number of 'transgressive' films that have never before had such in-depth analysis and treatment. From '70s Italian horror films and extreme European cinema to Nazi propaganda films and fundamentalist Christian 'scare' movies, these essays explore many different genres and themes.