Nazi Cinema as Enchantment

The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich

By:

Mary Elizabeth O'Brien

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture

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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.

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Skidmore College

Release date Australia

February 1st, 2006

Author

Mary Elizabeth O'Brien

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

18 b/w illus.

Pages

304

Series

Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9781571133342

Product ID

3547329

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