ENGLISH

Popular Cinema of the Third Reich

By Sabine Hake

Book information

Publisher
University of Texas Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0292734573, 9780292734579, 0292734581
LCC
PN1995.9.N36 H34 2001
Open Library ID
OL3944772M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4239853 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
288\288
Topic
Art Cinema
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50
Искусство и искусствоведение;Искусство кинематогра

Description

This book is not an overview of popular cinema of the Nazi era. It is an examination of 9 separate topics pertaining to the popular cinema of the 1933-45 era. While these chapter/essays are arranged in chronological order, reading this book does not give anyone a cohert picture of what Nazi Popular Cinema was like.Some of the essays are good, such as the one on two comedies of 1933 and the fate of Nazi era actors after the War. However, the more abstract the topic of an essay, such as how set design reveals attitudes toward "modernity," the less interesting it is for the general reader curious about the topic of Nazi Popular Cinema.Thomas Elsaesser's "The Ministry of Illusion" or (to a lesser extent) "Entertaining the Third Reich" would be far more helpful to the American reader who is seeking to understand the controversial films of the Nazi era.

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