{"product_id":"cultural-history-through-a-national-socialist-lens-9781571131348","title":"Cultural History through a National Socialist Lens","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fascinating look at Nazi Germany as revealed in its films.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays offers a view of Nazi Germany through an analysis of twenty films, representing a sampling of the period's directors and reflecting the film medium's major genres. In spite of the control that Goebbels's film industry exercised over all aspects of filmmaking in the Third Reich, the films reveal an individuality that belies subsuming them under any one rubric or containing them within any one theory. Films such as \u003ci\u003eHitlerjunge Quex, Die große Liebe,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAuf Wiedersehen Franziska\u003c\/i\u003e represent the Nazi film industry's efforts to propagandize through entertainment. Others such as \u003ci\u003eImmensee, Kleider machen Leute,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDer Schimmelreiter\u003c\/i\u003e reveal an attempt to expropriate Germany's rich literary past for the regime. These literary adaptations and films like \u003ci\u003eGlückskinder, La Habanera,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDer Kaiser von Kalifornien\u003c\/i\u003e today seem void of Nazi ideology if viewed outside the context of Nazism. But another film, \u003ci\u003eDer ewige Jude,\u003c\/i\u003e shocks us with its virulent anti-Semitism and hateful propaganda almost sixty years after its release. All of the  films treated, regardless of their fame or notoriety or the level of commitment of their directors to the Nazi cause, played an important role in a cinema that not only represents the dreams and lives of the citizens of the Third Reich, but influencedthem as well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Robert C. Reimer is professor of German at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.","brand":"Robert C. Reimer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280453611771,"sku":"9781571131348","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781571131348_c5453e63-8360-4b20-aed3-5f0dcfd44cd5.jpg?v=1772484884","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/cultural-history-through-a-national-socialist-lens-9781571131348","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}