Theater of Cruelty : Art, Film, and the Shadows of War.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: The Joys and Perils of Victimhood -- 2: Fascinating Narcissism: Leni Riefenstahl -- 3: Werner Herzog and His Heroes -- 4: The Genius of Berlin: Rainer Werner Fassbinder -- 5: The Destruction of Germany -- 6: There's No Place Like Heimat -- 7: The Afterlife of Anne Frank -- 8: Occupied Paris: The Sweet and the Cruel -- 9: The Twisted Art of Documentary -- 10: Ecstatic About Pearl Harbor -- 11: Suicide for the Empire -- 12: Eastwood's War -- 13: Robbed of Dreams -- 14: The Catty Chronicler: Harry Kessler -- 15: The Believer -- Illustrations -- 16: The Last Bengali Renaissance Man -- 17: The Way They Live Now: Mike Leigh -- 18: The Great Art of Embarrassment -- 19: The Invention of David Bowie -- 20: Dressing for Success -- 21: The Circus of Max Beckmann -- 22: Degenerate Art -- 23: George Grosz's Amerika -- 24: Mr. Natural -- 25: Obsessions in Tokyo -- 26: A Japanese Tragedy -- 27: Virtual Violence -- 28: AsiaWorld -- Sources.

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