Overview
- Summary
- Cultural productions in the Third Reich often served explicit propaganda functions of legitimating racism and glorifying war and militarism. Likewise, the proliferation of domestic and romance films in Nazi Germany also represented an ideological stance. Rather than reinforcing traditional gender role divisions and the status quo of the nuclear family, these films were much more permissive about desire and sexuality than previously assumed. Focusing on German romance films, domestic melodramas, and home front films from 1933 to 1945, Nazi Film Melodrama shows how melodramatic elements in Nazi cinema functioned as part of a project to move affect, body, and desire beyond the confines of bourgeois culture and participate in a curious modernization of sexuality engineered to advance the imperialist goals of the Third Reich. -- Publisher website.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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Introduction: melodrama in the Nazi cinema : the domestic war
An aesthetics of aggression : German fascist vs. classical Hollywood melodrama
The Nazi modernization of sex : romance melodrama
Breaking out of the bourgeois home : domestic melodrama
Germany's great love vs. the American fortress : home front melodrama
Epilogue : reprivatization after Nazi cinema : postwar German melodrama. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: melodrama in the Nazi cinema : the domestic war -- An aesthetics of aggression : German fascist vs. classical Hollywood melodrama -- The Nazi modernization of sex : romance melodrama -- Breaking out of the bourgeois home : domestic melodrama -- Germany's great love vs. the American fortress : home front melodrama -- Epilogue : reprivatization after Nazi cinema : postwar German melodrama.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780252037740
025203774X
9780252079351
0252079353
0252095022
9780252095023 - Physical Description
- viii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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