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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Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Other Authors: Machtans, Karolin, Ruehl, Martin A., 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Series:Holocaust and its contexts.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.