Nazi Cinema As Enchantment The Politics Of Entertainment In The Third Reich

Author : Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 157113283X

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

Author : Eric Rentschler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : David Stewart Hull
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Film in the Third Reich by David Stewart Hull Pdf

Author : Roel Vande Winkel,D. Welch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : David Welch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Julia Timpe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137531933

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Nazi-Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich by Julia Timpe Pdf

This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme. Shortly after coming to power in Germany, it began a large-scale undertaking to bring happiness and a good life to so-called 'Aryan' Germans, carried out by the Nazi leisure organization Kraft durch Freude. Julia Timpe traces Kraft durch Freude's practices and propaganda from 1933 through the Second World War, and analyses Nazi-organized sports classes, entertainment events, and beautification campaigns for industrial sites and the countryside, as well as Kraft durch Freude's activities in entertaining German soldiers and concentration camp guards. Contributing to newer scholarship which focuses on the integratory force of the Nazi promise of a unified 'racial community' of all 'Aryan' Germans, this book highlights that Kraft durch Freude's 'everyday production of joy' was central to Nazism, closely connected to the destructive side of the Third Reich, and ultimately a major reason for Nazism's success among the German population.

Author : Karl-Heinz Schoeps
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 157113252X

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Literature and Film in the Third Reich by Karl-Heinz Schoeps Pdf

This book is the first survey in English of literature and film in Nazi Germany. It treats not only works sympathetic to National Socialism, but also works of the so-called Inner Emigration, of the resistance, and those written in prisons and concentration camps. Much of this literature is not easily accessible in German, and not available at all in English translation. Historical and ideological context is provided in chapters covering influential works of the time such as Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the Twentieth Century and Houston Stewart Chamberlain's The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. Schoeps also analyzes Nazi cultural policies, fascist histories of literature, and the role of German studies and Germanists in the Nazi movement. A major section of the book is devoted to film, then a relatively new medium of communication whose propaganda value was clearly recognized by Goebbels, the minister for propaganda and president of the Reich's Chamber of Culture. One of the most interesting areas of research in recent years is the relationship between Hitler's cultural commissars, in particular Goebbels, and the literature and film production of the Nazi years. This book is based on the revised and expanded second German edition, Literatur im Dritten Reich (1933-1945), but has again been revised and expanded, especially the chapter on film and Nazi policies toward the film industry. The chapter on cultural policies has also been expanded to include Himmler's efforts to meddle in this area. New also are sections dealing with Jewish entertainers in concentration camps (for example, Kurt Gerron) and activities of the Jewish Cultural League. Karl-Heinz Schoeps is professor of German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Author : Eric Rentschler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Linda Schulte-Sasse
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0822318245

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Entertaining the Third Reich by Linda Schulte-Sasse Pdf

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Author : Erwin Leiser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UCSC:32106017686558

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Nazi Cinema by Erwin Leiser Pdf

Author : David Stewart Hull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UVA:X000920227

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Film in the Third Reich by David Stewart Hull Pdf

Author : Jackson J. Spielvogel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315509150

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Hitler and Nazi Germany by Jackson J. Spielvogel Pdf

This text is based on current research findings and is written for students and general readers who want a deeper understanding of this period in German history. It provides a balanced approach in examining Hitler's role in the history of the Third Reich and includes coverage of the economic, social, and political forces that made the rise and growth of Nazism possible; the institutional, cultural, and social life of the Third Reich; the Second World War; and the Holocaust.

Author : Pauline Fairclough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317005803

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Twentieth-Century Music and Politics by Pauline Fairclough Pdf

When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness as propaganda that leaps first to mind. But as a number of the chapters in this volume demonstrate, there is a complex relationship both between art music and politicised mass culture, and between entertainment and propaganda. Nationality, self/other, power and ideology are the dominant themes of this book, whilst key topics include: music in totalitarian regimes; music as propaganda; music and national identity; émigré communities and composers; music's role in shaping identities of 'self' and 'other' and music as both resistance to and instrument of oppression. Taking the contributions together it becomes clear that shared experiences such as war, dictatorship, colonialism, exile and emigration produced different, yet clearly inter-related musical consequences.

Author : David Imhoof
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472118991

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Becoming a Nazi Town by David Imhoof Pdf

Local cultural activities played a key role in altering Germany’s political landscape between the world wars