Hitler - Films from Germany [electronic resource] : History, Cinema and Politics since 1945 /
Machtans, K.editor.
Ruehl, M.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
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.
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
Civilization-History.
World War, 1939-1945.
Europe-History.
History, Modern.
United States-History.
Motion pictures and television.
Cultural History.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
European History.
Modern History.
US History.
Screen Studies.