Hitler--films from Germany : history, cinema and politics since 1945 / edited by Martin A. Ruehl, Karolin Machtans.
| Other author | Ruehl, Martin A., 1970- |
| Other author | Machtans, Karolin. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | The Holocaust and its Contexts Holocaust and its contexts. ^A1143379 |
| Contents | Introduction: Beyond the Gorgon's Gaze: Representing Hitler in German Cinema since 1945; K. Machtans & M. Ruehl -- The Fuhrer'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.T̲teberg -- Our Hitler: A Film by Hans Jurgen Syberberg; T. Elsaesser -- Entombing the Nazi Past: On Downfall and Historicism; S. Hake -- Tragedy and Farce: Dani Levy's Mein Fuhrer -- Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit uber 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. |
| Abstract | For more than fifty years German films about the Third Reich hardly ever featured its leader. Since the late 1990s, however, a wave of Hitler films has been washing over the country. Big-budget cinema productions like Downfall (2004) as well as publicly funded television series have given Hitler an unprecedented prominence and fundamentally recast his image in German popular culture. The present book is a first attempt to take stock of these transformations. A group of international experts discuss the most recent depictions of Hitler in the context of earlier ones and assess their impact on the collective memory of National Socialism in the Berlin Republic. |
| Abstract | "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 in the national historical imagination"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Hitler--films from Germany. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 9780230229907 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781137032386 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1137032383 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0230229905 |
| ISBN | 9780230229907 |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| Stock number | 360877 Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgraveconnect.com |
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