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Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema
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Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema Paperback - 1996

by Schulte-Sasse, L

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Duke University Press, 1996. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:9780822318248
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  • Title Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema
  • Author Schulte-Sasse, L
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham, NC
  • Date 1996
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9111500
  • ISBN 9780822318248 / 0822318245
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.27 x 6.03 x 1.06 in (23.55 x 15.32 x 2.69 cm)
  • Reading level 1540
  • Library of Congress subjects National socialism and motion pictures, Motion pictures - Political aspects - Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-17882
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

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From the publisher

In this persuasive reversal of previous scholarship, Linda Schulte-Sasse takes an unorthodox look at Nazi cinema, examining Nazi films as movies that contain propaganda rather than as propaganda vehicles that happen to be movies. Like other Nazi artistic productions, Nazi film has long been regarded as kitsch rather than art, and therefore unworthy of critical textual analysis. By reading these films as consumer entertainment, Schulte-Sasse reveals the similarities between Nazi commercial film and classical Hollywood cinema and, with this shift in emphasis, demonstrates how Hollywood-style movie formulas frequently compromised Nazi messages.
Drawing on theoretical work, particularly that of Lacan and Zizek, Schulte-Sasse shows how films such as Jew Ssss and The Great King construct fantasies of social harmony, often through distorted versions of familiar stories from eighteenth-century German literature, history, and philosophy. Schulte-Sasse observes, for example, that Nazi films, with their valorization of bourgeois culture and use of familiar narrative models, display a curious affinity with the world of Enlightenment culture that the politics of National Socialism would seem to contradict.
Schulte-Sasse argues that film served National Socialism less because of its ideological homogeneity than because of the appeal and familiarity of its underlying literary paradigms and because the medium itself guarantees a pleasurable illusion of wholeness. Entertaining the Third Reich will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, including those engaged in the study of cinema, popular culture, Nazism and Nazi art, the workings of fascist culture, and the history of modern ideology.

From the rear cover

""Entertaining the Third Reich" offers a trenchant approach to Nazi cinema and, in reading the complexities of this specific cinema, it puts a number of important theoretical concepts to the test. Providing new and exciting insights, Schulte-Sasse goes beyond the known cliches about many of these films and offers new takes on the theory."--Dana Polan

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About the author

Linda Schulte-Sasse is Professor of German Studies at Macalester College.

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