Hitler - films from Germany : history, cinema and politics since 1945
The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like Downfall in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their implications for the changing place of the Third Reich i...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan,
2012
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | The Holocaust and its contexts
The Holocaust and Its Contexts Ser. |
| Schlagworte: | Television Motion pictures Motion pictures and television Electronic books |
| Umfang: | XVI, 251 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Totem and Taboo; 1 The Führer's Fake: Presence of an Afterlife; 2 'Hitler's Shadow Still Looms over Us': G. W. Pabst's The Last Ten Days as Film and Event; 3 Our Hitler: A Film by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg; Part II: Another Hitler; 4 Entombing the Nazi Past: On Downfall and Historicism; 5 Tragedy and Farce: Dani Levy's Mein Führer; 6 Man, Demon, Icon: Hitler's Image between Cinematic Representation and Historical Reality; 7 Hitler Wars: Guilt and Complicity from Hirschbiegel to Harald Schmidt
- Part III: Approximations8 Hitler Nonfictional: On Didacticism and Exploitation in Recent Documentary Films; 9 Encountering Hitler: Seductive Charisma and Memory Spaces in Heinrich Breloer's Speer & Hitler; 10 Far Away So Close: Loving to Hate Hitler; Index
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Totem and Taboo; 1 The Führer's Fake: Presence of an Afterlife; 2 'Hitler's Shadow Still Looms over Us': G. W. Pabst's The Last Ten Days as Film and Event; 3 Our Hitler: A Film by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg; Part II: Another Hitler; 4 Entombing the Nazi Past: On Downfall and Historicism; 5 Tragedy and Farce: Dani Levy's Mein Führer; 6 Man, Demon, Icon: Hitler's Image between Cinematic Representation and Historical Reality; 7 Hitler Wars: Guilt and Complicity from Hirschbiegel to Harald Schmidt
- Part III: Approximations8 Hitler Nonfictional: On Didacticism and Exploitation in Recent Documentary Films; 9 Encountering Hitler: Seductive Charisma and Memory Spaces in Heinrich Breloer's Speer & Hitler; 10 Far Away So Close: Loving to Hate Hitler; Index