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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Reviews
' superbly researched and presented Editors Machtans and Ruehl greatly enrich our understanding of Hitler's representations in German cinema and television.' - Alan Marcus, University of Aberdeen, UK
' a thought-provoking collection, with some outstanding essays. This volume
makes an important intervention in debates about film and the Third Reich, the depiction of history on screen, and the politics of memory.' - Jo Fox, Durham University, UK
'With historical precision and theoretical nuance, Hitler Films from Germany illuminates German cinema's enduring fascination with Hitler. A rich and revealing book about a past that refuses to go away.' - Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley, USA
'Hitler Films from Germany is an excellent collection of meticulously researched scholarship that demonstrates the complex and contradictory ways in which Hitler figures as an object of fascination in past and contemporary German media productions.' - Monatshefte
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
MARTIN A. RUEHL is Lecturer in German Thought at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Cambridge University, UK, specializing in the cultural and intellectual history of modern Germany. His research concentrates on the myths and memories that have shaped German society and culture in the twentieth century. He has published books and articles on Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, and Stefan George. For the Cambridge MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures, he lectures on fascist cinema and the representations of fascism in post-war European film.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hitler - Films from Germany
Book Subtitle: History, Cinema and Politics since 1945
Editors: Karolin Machtans, Martin A. Ruehl
Series Title: The Holocaust and its Contexts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137032386
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22990-7Published: 30 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31110-1Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-03238-6Published: 30 November 2012
Series ISSN: 2731-5711
Series E-ISSN: 2731-572X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 300
Topics: Cultural History, History of World War II and the Holocaust, European History, Modern History, US History, Screen Studies