Popular cinema of the Third Reich / Sabine Hake.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-265) and index.

Popular cinema, national cinema, nazi cinema : a definition of terms -- Made in 1933 : German-Jewish filmmakers and the forced coordination of the industry -- Cinema, set design, and the domestication of modernism -- At the movies : film audiences and the problem of spectatorship -- Stars : Heinz Ruhmann and the performance of the ordinary -- Detlef Sierck and Schlussakkord (Final chord, 1936) : a case study of film authorship -- The foreign and the familiar : on German-American film relations, 1933-1940 -- The annexation of an imaginary city : the Topos "Vienna" and the Wien-Film AG -- The power of thought : redefining popular cinema between realism and illusionism -- A question of representation : working women and wartime cinema -- The legacies of the past in the cinema of postwar reconstruction.