Ministry of Illusion Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife

Name: Ministry of Illusion Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife
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ISBN: 9780674576407

ISBN-10: 0674576403

ISBN-13: 9780674576407

Edition: 1996

Authors: Eric Rentschler

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German cinema of the Third Reich, even a half-century after Hitler's demise, still provokes extreme reactions. "Never before and in no other country," observes director Wim Wenders, "have images and language been abused so unscrupulously as here, never before and nowhere else have they been debased so deeply as vehicles to transmit lies." More than a thousand German feature films that premiered during the reign of National Socialism survive as mementoes of what many regard as film history's darkest hour. As Eric Rentschler argues, however, cinema in the Third Reich emanated from a Ministry of Illusion and not from a Ministry of Fear. Party vehicles such as Hitler Youth Quex and…

Book details

List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English

Eric Rentschler is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.



Preface


Abbreviations and Special Terms


Introduction: The Power of Illusions



Fatal Attractions



A Legend for Modern Times: The Blue Light (1932)



Emotional Engineering: Hitler Youth Quex (1933)



Foreign Affairs



Home Sweet Heimat: The Prodigal Son (1934)



Hollywood Made in Germany: Lucky Kids (1936)



Astray in the New World: La Habanera (1937)



Specters and Shadows



The Elective Other: Jew Suss (1940)



The Fuhrer's Phantom: Paracelsus (1943)



Self-Reflexive Self-Destruction: Munchhausen (1943)


Epilogue: The Testament of Dr. Goebbels



Films and Events, 1933-1945



Directorial Filmographies



American Film and Videotape


Sources Notes


Bibliography


Index