Antisemitism in film comedy in Nazi Germany /
Today, many Germans remain nostalgic about "classic" film comedies created during the 1930s, viewing them as a part of the Nazi era that was not tainted with antisemitism. In Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany, Valerie Weinstein scrutinizes these comic productions and demonstrates...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Note on translation
- Introduction: reconceiving antisemitism in Third Reich film comedy
- Overt and inferential antisemitism in Nazi writings and the film trade press
- Overt antisemitism, Jewish difference, and colonial whiteness in early Third Reich film comedy: nur nicht weich werden, Susanne! and die blume von Hawaii
- Comic ersatz: Viktor und Viktoria and Gluckskinder
- Wenn wir alle Engel waren as the model of a racialized German humor
- Capitalism, colonialism, and the white Jew in April! April! and Donogoo Tonka
- Mistaken identity and the masked Jew in Robert und Bertram
- Jewish absence, epistemic murk, and the aesthetics of cremation in Munchhausen and Die Feuerzangenbowle
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- Index.