Nazisploitation!
Subtitle: the Nazi image in low-brow cinema and culture
By: edited by Daniel H. Magilow, Elizabeth Bridges, and Kristin T. Vander Lugt
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781441183590; 9781441110602
Subjects: Motion pictures and the war; National socialism in motion pictures; World War, 1939-1945; Nazis in motion pictures
Description: "Nazisploitation! examines past intersections of National Socialism and popular cinema and the recent reemergence of this imagery in contemporary visual culture. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, films such as Love Camp 7 and Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS introduced and reinforced the image of Nazis as master paradigms of evil in what film theorists deem the 'sleaze' film. More recently, Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, as well as video games such as Call of Duty: World at War, have reinvented this iconography for new audiences. In these works, the violent Nazi becomes the hyperbolic caricature of the "monstrous feminine" or the masculine sadist. Power-hungry scientists seek to clone the F hrer, and Nazi zombies rise from the grave. The history, aesthetic strategies, and political implications of such translations of National Socialism into the realm of commercial, low brow, and 'sleaze' visual culture are the focus of this book. The contributors examine when and why the Nazisploitation genre emerged as it did, how it establishes and violates taboos, and why this iconography resonates with contemporary audiences."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-314) and index.

Includes filmography.