Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema

by Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor), D. Welch (Editor)

Overview

This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically, politically and culturally - the film industries of 20 countries and regions either occupied by, friendly with or neutral towards Nazi Germany.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403994912
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/07/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

BRETT BOWLES Assistant Professor of French Studies, the State University of New York, Albany, USA
DAVID CULBERT John L. Loos Professor of History, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
MICHAEL ECKARDT Visiting Scholar, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
JO FOX Senior Lecturer in Modern History, the University of Durham, UK
RALF FORSTER Film historian, the Filmmuseum Potsdam, and Lecturer, Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany
DAVID FREY Assistant Professor of History, the United States Military Academy at West Point, USA
JANINE HANSEN Graduate, the Ostasiatisches Seminar at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
GIANNI HAVER Professor at the Institut de sociologie des communications de masse (ISCM), the Université de Lausanne, France
LISA JARVINEN Assistant Professor of History, La Salle University, Philadelphia, USA
ARISTOTLE A. KALLIS Senior Lecturer in European Studies, the University of Lancaster, UK
TIM KIRK Lecturer in European History, the University of Newcastle upon
Tyne, UK
IVAN KLIMES Head of the Department fo Film Theory and History, National Film Archives, Prague, Czechoslovakia
PAUL LESCH Lecturer, University of Luxembourg and the Miami University John E. Dolibois European Center, Luxembourg
BENJAMIN GEORGE MARTIN Post-Doctoral Fellow, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
JULIO MONTERO Senior Lecturer, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
LUIZ NAZARIO Professor of Film History, the Fine Arts School of the Federal University of Minas Gerais
MARIA ANTONIA PAZ Professor at the Faculty of Information Science, the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
FRANCISCO PEREDO-CASTRO Professor/Researcher, the Faculty of Political and Social Science of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
DANIEL RAFAELIC Film Historian currently working in Croatian cinematheque
INGO SCHIWECK PhD Graduate, History and Political Science in Germany and the Netherlands
EIRINI SIFAKI Lecturer in Film History, the School of Film Studies, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
BJORN SORENSSEN Professor at the Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Trondheim, Norway
KEYAN TOMASELLI Professor of Culture, Communication and Media Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
ROEL VANDE WINKEL Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
ROBERT VON DASSANOWSKY Professor of German and Film Studies, the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA
DAVID WELCH Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda and War, the University of Kent, UK
ROCHELLE WRIGHT Professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies, and Gender and Women's Studies, the University of Illinois, USA

Table of Contents

Introduction Europe's New Hollywood? The German Film Industry Under Nazi Rule, 1933-1945; D.Welch & R.Vande Winkel 'European Cinema for Europe!' The International Film Chamber, 1935-42; B.G.Martin German Attempts to Penetrate the Spanish-speaking Film Markets, 1936-1942; L.Jarvinen & F.Peredo-Castro Between Resistance and Collaboration: Austrian Cinema and Nazism Before and During the Annexation, 1933-45; R.von Dassanowsky German Influence on Belgian Cinema, 1933-45: from Low-Profile Presence to Downright Colonisation; R.Vande Winkel Nazi Film Politics in Brazil, 1933-42; L.Nazario The Influence of German Cinema on Newly Established Croatian Cinematography, 1941-45; D.Rafaelic A Dangerous Neighbourhood: German Cinema in the Czechoslovak Region, 1933-45; I.Klimes The Attempted Nazification of French Cinema, 1934-44; B.Bowles Cinema Goes to War: the German Film Policy in Greece during the Occupation, 1941-44; E.Sifaki 'Competitor or Compatriot? Hungarian Film in the Shadow of the Swastika', 1933-44; D.S.Frey A War Within the War: Italy, Film, Propaganda and the Quest for Cultural Hegemony in Europe (1933-43); A.A.Kallis Celluloid Competition: German-Japanese Film Relations, 1929-45; J.Hansen From Dawn to Young Eagles : The (Failed) Attempt of Germanisation and Nazification of Luxembourg Through Cinema, 1933-1944; P.Lesch Dutch-German Film Relations Under German Pressure and Nazi Occupation, 1933-45; I.Schiweck From Will to Reality - Norwegian Film During the Nazi Occupation, 1940-45; B.Sorenssen Brown-Red Shadows: The Influence of Third Reich and Soviet Cinema on Afrikaans Film; K.Tomaselli & M.Eckardt Film and Politics in South-East Europe: Germany as 'leading cultural nation'; T.Kirk German Films on the Spanish Market Before, During and After the Civil War; M.A. Paz & J.Montero Swedish Film and Germany, 1933-45; R.Wright Film Propaganda and the Balance between Neutrality and Alignment: Nazi Films in Switzerland, 1933-45; G.Haver 'A thin stream issuing through closed lock gates': German Cinema and the United Kingdom, 1933-45; J.Fox German Films in America, 1933-45: Public Diplomacy and an Uncoordinated Information Campaign; D.Culbert German Film Politics in the Occupied Eastern Territories, 1941-45; R.Forster Select Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

Winner of the 2007 Willy Haas Award for books on German cinema. For more information see the prize website: http://www.wgfilmtv.ugent.be/willyhaas_award_ENG.htm

'A revelatory book which transforms our sense of German and European film history'

Katie Trumpener, Yale University, USA

'The crude and moralising conceptualisation of film propaganda that devalues the academic validity of so many works on Nazi film propaganda is absent. The concise contributions, providing dense and comprehensible information, form outstanding introductory texts. Detailed footnotes and references lead to further, deeper research results.'

Martin Loiperdinger, H-Soz-u-Kult

'Cinema and the Swastika was rightfully awarded the Willy Haas Award for outstanding publication on German cinema at Cinefest 2007 in Hamburg. The contributions are stimulating, informative, and jargon-free. This book belongs in the reference collection of anyone engaged in the study of German politics, culture or film history from 1933 until 1945.' - Horst Claus, Filmblatt

'The chapters address the complex issues that surround the international dimension of Third Reich Cinema and thus reinvigorate academic discourses dealing with this controversial era. Strongly recommended.'

Tobias Hochscherf, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

'This innovative collection on the Third Reich should trigger new research. The essays are extremely informative, raising new issues about cultural imperialism and consumerism during the National Socialist era. Each essay is a precise, informative piece about the chosen country or region, introducing, indeed for the first time, film industries usually left out of Third Reich cinema studies.' - Christelle Le Faucheur, H-Net

'The papers collected in this volume offer new and diverse material invaluable as a resource to film students and historians alike, as well as being a fascinating companion to the films produced under the Third Reich. The content is extremely well presented and referenced, with an excellent index, select bibliography and black and white images illuminating film posters and historic photographs from the period. The end result is a professional and extremely interesting collection of important studies.' - Karl Birkelbach, Limina

'Cinema and the Swastika is long overdue and should prove invaluable to screen historians...The emphasis is very much on the political and economic aspects of continental cinema rather than its content. But while this may disappoint those seeking a greater insight into the exploitation and collaboration of renowned actors and directors and the calibre of the films they produced, the audacious bid for cultural hegemony attempted by the Nazis makes for consistently compelling reading....a pioneering work that seeks to inspire others to delve deeper into the operational procedures and artistic aspirations of international film-makers in the 12 years following the Nazi accession to power...the standard text on the subject.' - David Parkinson, The Oxford Times

Cinema and the Swastika breaks genuinely new ground by exploring the international expansion of the Nazi film industry, particularly during the war.' - Gerwin Strobl, War in History

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