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Animation Under the Swastika : a History of Trickfilm in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 / Rolf Giesen and J.P. Storm

Publication | Library Call Number: NC1766.G3 G54 2012
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"This study explores Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels' efforts to establish a German cartoon industry to rival Walt Disney's and their love-hate relationship with American producers, whose films they studied behind locked doors"--Provided by publisher.

Format
Book
Author/Creator
Giesen, Rolf.
Published
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2012]
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language
English
External Link
Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by ProQuest
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Physical Description
viii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents
Optical lyric and shadow plays: the early history of German animation
The march of the cigarettes
Tilo Voss and the development of German sound cartoons
How Walt Disney became Walter Distler: Snow White for greater Germany
Global power for German trickfilm
Puppet films: Starevich, Mecki the hedgehog, the Diehl brothers and Jürgen Clausen, the German "pal"
An animation pioneer with a non-Aryan background: Wolfgang Kaskeline
The phenomenology and psychology of cartoons
Hans Held, troublemaker
Kurt Stordel and Purzel: a self-proclaimed German Walt Disney and his dwarf
Towards a German Disney empire
The futile dream of a German cartoon factory: rise and fall of Deutsche Zeichenfilm G.m.b.H.
Snow man and weather-beaten melody: Hans Fischerkoesen and Horst Von Möllendorff
A surprising underwater cartoon from Prague: wedding at coral sea
Deutsche Wochenshau and the "collaborators" of the Europäischer Zeichenfilm ring
Bavaria, Munchausen and the town musicians of Bremen
Animated maps to hail German victories: Svend Noldan
Classified animation: training the military
The aftermath: the postwar era of German animation
The filmmakers: biographies
Select filmography.
Other Authors/Editors
Storm, J. P.
ISBN
9780786446407
0786446404
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Form
Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.

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