Hitler - films from Germany : history, cinema and politics since 1945 / ed. by Karolin Machtans and Martin A. Ruehl
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 Authors: | German Studies Association (Other) |
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| Other Authors: | Machtans, Karolin (Editor) Ruehl, Martin (Editor) |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 |
| Edition: | 1. publ |
| Series: | The Holocaust and its contexts
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Cover Cover |
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| Introduction: Beyond the Gorgon's Gaze: Representing Hitler in German Cinema since 1945; K.Machtans & M.Ruehl |
| The Führer's Fake: Presence of an Afterlife; E.Rentschler |
| "Hitler's shadow still looms over us": G.W. Pabst's Der letzte Akt and its contemporary public response; M.Töteberg |
| Our Hitler: A Film by Hans Jürgen Syberberg; T.Elsaesser |
| Entombing the Nazi Past: On Downfall and Historicism; S.Hake |
| Tragedy and Farce: Dani Levy's Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler; M.D.Richardson |
| Man, Demon, Icon: The Cinematic Image of Hitler between Representation and Historical Reality; M.Elm |
| Hitler Wars: From Hirschbiegel to Harald Schmidt; M.Butter |
| Hitler Nonfictional: Hitler's Image in Recent Documentary Films; K.Stutterheim |
| Encountering Hitler: Seductive Charisma and Memory Spaces in Heinrich Breloer's Speer und Er (2005); A.Bangert |
| Conclusion: Far Away So Close: Loving to Hate Hitler; J.von Moltke. |
