Hitler's Heroines: Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema: Culture and the Moving Image
Autor Antje Ascheiden Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 ian 2003
The careers of Kristina Soderbaum, Lilian Harvey, and Zarah Leander speak to the Nazis' need to address and contain the "woman question," to redirect female subjectivity and desires to self sacrifice for the common good (i.e., national socialism). Hollywood's new women and glamorous dames were out; the German wife and mother were in. The roles and star personas assigned to these actresses, though intended to entertain the public in a politically conformist way, point to the difficulty of yoking popular culture to ideology. Author note:
Antje Ascheid is Assistant Professor in the Department of Drama and Theater at the University of Georgia.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781566399838
ISBN-10: 1566399831
Pagini: 287
Dimensiuni: 156 x 239 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Temple University Press
Seria Culture and the Moving Image
ISBN-10: 1566399831
Pagini: 287
Dimensiuni: 156 x 239 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Temple University Press
Seria Culture and the Moving Image
Cuprins
Preface
Introduction
1. Nazi Culture? National Socialism, Stardom, and Female Representation
2. Kristina Söderbaum: The Myth of Naturalness, Sacrifice, and the "Reich's Water Corpse"
3. Lilian Harvey: International Stardom, German Comedy, and the "Dream Couple"
4. Diva, Mother, Martyr: The Many Faces of Zarah Leander
5. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. Nazi Culture? National Socialism, Stardom, and Female Representation
2. Kristina Söderbaum: The Myth of Naturalness, Sacrifice, and the "Reich's Water Corpse"
3. Lilian Harvey: International Stardom, German Comedy, and the "Dream Couple"
4. Diva, Mother, Martyr: The Many Faces of Zarah Leander
5. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
The author shows Nazi cinemas adaptation of Hollywoods popular cultural forms for its own propagandistic purposes. In Ascheids analysis, they emerge as complicated figures who reveal both the influence of fascist doctrine and, at the same time, the desires and conflicts of real German women in the thirties and forties
.the book is quite convincing in showing how [Kristina] Söderbaum could reveal the tragic components of womanhood particularly in Harlans state-ordered propagandistic melodramas. Colloquia Germanica[a] useful and stimulating study Ascheids book is well-researched, tightly structured, and well written, and is a highly welcome addition to the growing body of sophisticated studies of the cinema of the Third Reich. German Studies Reviewa valuable contribution to both Third Reich Film Studies and Womens Studies. Well-researched, informed by theoretical and methodological developments in Film Studies and German Studies, and lucidly written, this volume enriches current understandings both of the Nazi film industry and of the tensions between party ideology and the medias images of women in the Third Reich. Monatshefte"Hitler's Heroines is the first in-depth study of the complex role of female stars in Nazi cinema. Ascheid's detailed analysis of three of the most celebrated starsKristina Söderbaum, Zarah Leander, and Lilian Harveyshows the crucial role female stars played within Joseph Goebbels's entertainment industry. Ascheid highlights womanhood as a central area of contestation within German fascism and her work is informed by a wealth of recent critical studies on the history and cinema of the Third Reich." Gerd Gemünden, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College"Hitler's Heroines undermines the notion of the Nazi state's total control of public attitudes. It reveals the slippages in the discourses on gender, sexuality and nation that occurred through the film industry's construction of female stardom. In the process, the book breaks new ground in the increasingly well-cultivated terrain of Nazi cinema studies." Robert R. Shandley, Associate Professor of Film Studies and German, Texas A&M University, and author of Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich (Temple)
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The brightest stars in fascist films