Cultural history through a National Socialist lens essays on the cinema of the Third Reich /

Other Authors: Reimer, Robert C. 1943-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2000.
Physical Description: xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Subjects:
Item Description: Some essays based on a seminar course entitled "Cinema in the Third Reich" offered by David Bathrick at Cornell University in the summer of 1996.
Introduction: Modernity writ German: state of the art as art of the Nazi state / David Bathrick -- Reflections of Weimar cinema in the Nazi propaganda films SA-Mann Brand, Hitlerjunge Quex, and Hans Westmar / Heidi Faletti -- Luis Trenker: a rebel in the Third Reich? Der Rebell, Der verlorene Sohn, and Der Kaiser von Kalifornien, Condottieri, and Der Feuerteufel / Franz A. Birgel -- The director and the diva: the film musicals of Detlef Sierck and Zarah Leander: Zu neuen Ufern and La Habanera / Thomas R. Nadar -- Fear of flying: education to manhood in Nazi film comedies: Glückskinder and Quax, der Bruchpilot / Cary Nathenson -- Far away, so close: Carl Froelich's Heimat / Florentine Strzelczyk -- A cinematic construction of Nazi anti-semitism: the documentary Der ewige Jude / Joan Clinefelter -- Escaping home: Leni Riefenstahl's visual poetry in Tiefland / Roger Russi -- Literary Nazis? Adapting nineteenth-century German novellas for the screen: Der Schimmelreiter, Kleider machen Leute, and Immensee / Richard J. Rundell -- The spectacle of war in Die groÝe Liebe / Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien -- Turning inward: an analysis of Helmut Käutner's Auf Wiedersehen, Franziska; Romanze in Moll; Unter den Brücken / Robert C. Reimer -- Working for the man, whoever that may be: the vocation of Wolfgang Liebeneiner / John E. Davidson.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [268]-284) and index.
Physical Description: xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [268]-284) and index.
ISBN: 1571131647