Grand illusion
Subtitle: the Third Reich, the Paris exposition, and the cultural seduction of France
By: Karen Fiss.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780226251998; 9780226252018
Subjects: Nazi propaganda -- France; National socialism -- Foreign public opinion, French; France -- Relations -- Germany; Germany -- Relations -- France; Germany -- Foreign public opinion, French; France -- Politics and government -- 1914-1940
Description: "Franco-German cultural exchange reached its height at the 1937 Paris World's Fair, where the Third Reich worked to promote an illusion of friendship between the two countries. Through the prism of this decisive event, Grand Illusion examines the overlooked relationships among Nazi elites and French intellectuals. Their interaction, Karen Fiss argues, profoundly influenced cultural production and normalized aspects of fascist ideology in 1930s France, laying the groundwork for the country's eventual collaboration with its German occupiers."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The cultural politics of rapprochement; title: The production of the German pavilion; title: The reception of Nazi culture; title: Franco-German relations in the cinema and the 1937 exposition; title: The visual pleasure of mass ornament; title: Epilogue: Vichy and the legacy of the 1930s.