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The Third Reich on screen, 1929-2015 / Bob Herzberg.

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: PN1995.9.N36 H47 2017

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    "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"-- Provided by publisher.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Herzberg, Bob, 1956- author.
    Published
    Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
    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!).
    Notes
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    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!).

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9781476664262
    1476664269
    Additional Form
    Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM
    Physical Description
    vii, 203 pages ; 26 cm

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    2024-06-21 20:05:00
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