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Screen Nazis: Cinema, History, and Democracy Paperback - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Sabine Hake

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From the late 1930s to the early twenty-first century, European and American filmmakers have displayed an enduring fascination with Nazi leaders, rituals, and symbols, making scores of films from Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) and Watch on the Rhine (1943) through Des Teufels General (The Devil's General, 1955) and Pasqualino settebellezze (Seven Beauties, 1975), up to Der Untergang (Downfall, 2004), Inglourious Basterds (2009), and beyond.
Probing the emotional sources and effects of this fascination, Sabine Hake looks at the historical relationship between film and fascism and its far-reaching implications for mass culture, media society, and political life. In confronting the specter and spectacle of fascist power, these films not only depict historical figures and events but also demand emotional responses from their audiences, infusing the abstract ideals of democracy, liberalism, and pluralism with new meaning and relevance.
Hake underscores her argument with a comprehensive discussion of films, including perspectives on production history, film authorship, reception history, and questions of performance, spectatorship, and intertextuality. Chapters focus on the Hollywood anti-Nazi films of the 1940s, the West German anti-Nazi films of the 1950s, the East German anti-fascist films of the 1960s, the Italian "Naziploitation" films of the 1970s, and issues related to fascist aesthetics, the ethics of resistance, and questions of historicization in films of the 1980s-2000s from the United States and numerous European countries.

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  • Title Screen Nazis: Cinema, History, and Democracy
  • Author Sabine Hake
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
  • Publication date 2012
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780299287146 / 0299287149
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects National socialism in motion pictures, Nazis in motion pictures
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011043917
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

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Sabine Hake is the Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of numerous books and anthologies on German cinema and culture, including Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin.

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Paperback / softback. New. From the late 1930s to the early twenty-first century, European and American filmmakers have displayed an enduring fascination with Nazi leaders, rituals, and symbols, making scores of films from Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) and Watch on the Rhine (1943) through Des Teufels General (The Devil's General, 1955) and Pasqualino settebellezze (Seven Beauties, 1975), up to Der Untergang (Downfall, 2004), Inglourious Basterds Probing the emotional sources and effects of this fascination, Sabine Hake looks at the historical relationship between film and fascism and its far-reaching implications for mass culture, media society, and political life. In confronting the spectre and spectacle of fascist power, these films not only depict historical figures and events but also demand emotional responses from their audiences, infusing the abstract ideals of democracy, liberalism, and pluralism with new meaning and relevance. Hake underscores her argument with a comprehensive… Read more
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