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The Third Reich on screen, 1929-2015

Title
The Third Reich on screen, 1929-2015 / Bob Herzberg.
Author
Herzberg, Bob, 1956-
Publication
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]

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Description
vii, 203 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
"Drawing on studio files, Production Code office correspondence and the writings of noted historians and critics, this book describes the making of many films produced in Hollywood, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc nations. Biographies of several military and political figures who served as the basis for Nazi characters compare the cinematic and real-life versions"--
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • National socialism in motion pictures
  • National socialism and motion pictures
  • Motion pictures > Political aspects > History > 20th century
  • Nazis in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures > Political aspects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Infection (1929/1937): Weimar-era filmmaking and the disease taking root in Germany -- Rage (1938/1941): as Nazi aggression spreads across Europe, voices of defiance are finally heard -- Inferno (1942/1945): America enters World War II as the combatants attack each other on-screen as well as off -- Final solutions (1946/1954): postwar Hollywood and Washington continue to ignore the Holocaust even as Nazi war criminals are hunted down on-screen -- Airbrush (1955/1962): both Hollywood and Germany rewrite history as it condemns Nazism while praising "good Germans" in war-themed films -- Meshugannah (1963/1980): mad doctors, Nazi zombies, attempts to revive Hitler, death camp perverts and Ships of fools -- Ghosts (1981/2015): concentration camp children appear as next-door neighbors, we find out what it's like to be Hitler's secretary, and Nazi zombies return (with a vengeance!).
Call Number
MFL 17-1219
ISBN
  • 9781476664262
  • 1476664269
LCCN
  • 2016047081
  • 40026692510
OCLC
952390183
Author
Herzberg, Bob, 1956- author.
Title
The Third Reich on screen, 1929-2015 / Bob Herzberg.
Publisher
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199) and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Other Standard Identifier
40026692510
Research Call Number
MFL 17-1219
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