Description
Book SynopsisAn overview of Third Reich cinema through the lens of national cinema studies.
Trade Review"This is an immaculately researched, sophisticatedly argued investigation into the richly varied aspects of popular cinema during the Third Reich... The result is an impressive, highly informative, and insightful book." Alice Kuzniar, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Popular Cinema, National Cinema, Nazi Cinema: A Definition of Terms
- 2. Made in 1933: German-Jewish Filmmakers and the Forced Coordination of the Industry
- 3. Cinema, Set Design, and the Domestication of Modernism
- 4. At the Movies: Film Audiences and the Problem of Spectatorship
- 5. Stars: Heinz Rühmann and the Performance of the Ordinary
- 6. Detlef Sierck and Schlußakkord (Final Chord, 1936): A Case Study of Film Authorship
- 7. The Foreign and the Familiar: On German-American Film Relations, 1933-1940
- 8. The Annexation of an Imaginary City: The Topos "Vienna" and the Wien-Film AG
- 9. The Power of Thought: Redefining Popular Cinema between Realism and Illusionism
- 10. A Question of Representation: Working Women and Wartime Cinema
- 11. The Legacies of the Past in the Cinema of Postwar Reconstruction
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index of German Titles and Names
- Index
