
German film-goers flocked to see musicals and melodramas during the Nazi era. Although the Nazis seemed to require that every aspect of ordinary life advance the fascist project, even the most popular films depicted characters and desires that deviated from the politically correct ideal. Probing into the contradictory images of womanhood that surfaced in these films, Antje Ascheid shows how Nazi h...
Series: Culture and the Moving Image
Hardcover: 287 pages
Publisher: Temple Univ Pr (March 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1566399831
ISBN-13: 978-1566399838
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 8.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 9520483
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This is a very well researched book with lots of information. But even though it is about film history, the text is accompanied by few photos, although those which were included were interesting and absolutely in context with the subject matter imme...
otiated the gender conflicts that confronted contemporary women.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.