Hitler--films from Germany
Subtitle: history, cinema and politics since 1945
By: edited by Martin A. Ruehl, Karolin Machtans
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780230229907
Subjects: Motion pictures; Television; HISTORY / Social History; HISTORY / Holocaust; In motion pictures; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / Europe / Germany; History
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Beyond the Gorgon's Gaze: Representing Hitler in German Cinema since 1945; K.Machtans & M.Ruehl; title: The Führer's Fake: Presence of an Afterlife; E.Rentschler; title: "Hitler's shadow still looms over us": G.W. Pabst's Der letzte Akt and its contemporary public response; M.Töteberg; title: Our Hitler: A Film by Hans Jürgen Syberberg; T.Elsaesser; title: Entombing the Nazi Past: On Downfall and Historicism; S.Hake; title: Tragedy and Farce: Dani Levy's Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler; M.D.Richardson; title: Man, Demon, Icon: The Cinematic Image of Hitler between Representation and Historical Reality; M.Elm; title: Hitler Wars: From Hirschbiegel to Harald Schmidt; M.Butter; title: Hitler Nonfictional: Hitler's Image in Recent Documentary Films; K.Stutterheim; title: Encountering Hitler: Seductive Charisma and Memory Spaces in Heinrich Breloer's Speer und Er (2005); A.Bangert; title: Conclusion: Far Away So Close: Loving to Hate Hitler; J.von Moltke.