The Third Reich on Screen, 1929-2015
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6426-2 (ISBN)
For more than 80 years, images of the Third Reich have appeared in newsreels, documentaries, and fictional stories--from comedies and musicals to war, horror and science fiction films. Many of these representations say as much about the filmmakers as they do about Nazism itself. Hollywood often used the brutal Nazi as an all-purpose villain in escapist adventures set during and after the war, but just as often used him to attack the evil he symbolized.
Drawing on studio files, correspondence of the Production Code office and the writings of noted historians and critics, this book describes the making of many such films produced in Hollywood, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc nations. Biographies of several military and political figures who served as the basis for Nazi characters compare the cinematic and real-life versions.
Writer, actor and comedian Bob Herzberg is the author of scholarly books and Western novels. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
IInfection (1929–1937): Weimar-era filmmaking and the disease taking root in Germany
IIRage (1938–1941): As Nazi aggression spreads across Europe, voices of defiance are finally heard
IIIInferno (1942–1945): America enters World War II as the combatants attack each other on-screen as well as off
IVFinal Solutions (1946–1954): Postwar Hollywood and Washington continue to ignore the Holocaust even as Nazi war criminals are hunted down on-screen
VAirbrush (1955–1962): Both Hollywood and Germany rewrite history as it condemns Nazism while praising “good Germans” in war-themed films
VIMeshugannah (1963–1980): Mad doctors, Nazi zombies, attempts to revive Hitler, death camp perverts and Ships of Fools
VIIGhosts (1981–2015): Concentration camp children
appear as next-door neighbors, we find out what it’s like to be Hitler’s secretary, and Nazi zombies return (with a vengeance!)
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 20.11.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 38 photos, notes, bibliography, index |
Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 376 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4766-6426-9 / 1476664269 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-6426-2 / 9781476664262 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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