Hitler - Films from Germany: History, Cinema and Politics since 1945 (The Holocaust and its Contexts)

The First Book-length Study To Critically Examine The Recent Wave Of Hitler Biopics In German Cinema And Television. A Group Of International Experts Discuss Films Like Downfall In The Context Of Earlier Portrayals Of Hitler And Draw Out Their Implications For The Changing Place Of The Third Reich In The National Historical Imagination. Edited By Karolin Machtans, Martin A. Ruehl. Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Beyond the Gorgon's Gaze: Representing Hitler in German Cinema since 1945; K. Machtans & M. Ruehl -- The Führer's Fake: Presence of an Afterlife; E. Rentschler -- "Hitler's shadow still looms over us": G.W. Pabst's Der letzte Akt and its contemporary public response; M. Töteberg -- Our Hitler: A Film by Hans Jürgen Syberberg; T. Elsaesser -- Entombing the Nazi Past: On Downfall and Historicism; S. Hake -- Tragedy and Farce: Dani Levy's Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler; M.D. Richardson -- Man, Demon, Icon: The Cinematic Image of Hitler between Representation and Historical Reality; M. Elm -- Hitler Wars: From Hirschbiegel to Harald Schmidt; M. Butter -- Hitler Nonfictional: Hitler's Image in Recent Documentary Films; K. Stutterheim -- Encountering Hitler: Seductive Charisma and Memory Spaces in Heinrich Breloer's Speer und Er (2005); A. Bangert -- Conclusion: Far Away So Close: Loving to Hate Hitler; J.von Moltke Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction....Pages 1-31 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 The Führer’s Fake: Presence of an Afterlife....Pages 35-55 ‘Hitler’s Shadow Still Looms over Us’: G. W. Pabst’s The Last Ten Days as Film and Event....Pages 56-71 Our Hitler: A Film by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg....Pages 72-96 Front Matter....Pages 97-97 Entombing the Nazi Past: On Downfall and Historicism....Pages 99-131 Tragedy and Farce: Dani Levy’s Mein Führer....Pages 132-150 Man, Demon, Icon: Hitler’s Image between Cinematic Representation and Historical Reality....Pages 151-167 Hitler Wars: Guilt and Complicity from Hirschbiegel to Harald Schmidt....Pages 168-189 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 Hitler Nonfictional: On Didacticism and Exploitation in Recent Documentary Films....Pages 193-210 Encountering Hitler: Seductive Charisma and Memory Spaces in Heinrich Breloer’s Speer & Hitler....Pages 211-233 Far Away So Close: Loving to Hate Hitler....Pages 234-243 Back Matter....Pages 244-251 For more than fifty years German films about the Third Reich hardly ever featured its leader. Since the late 1990s, however, a wave of Hitler films has been washing over the country. Big-budget cinema productions like Downfall (2004) as well as publicly funded television series have given Hitler an unprecedented prominence and fundamentally recast his image in German popular culture. The present book is a first attempt to take stock of these transformations. A group of international experts discuss the most recent depictions of Hitler in the context of earlier ones and assess their impact on the collective memory of National Socialism in the Berlin Republic "The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like Downfall in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their implications for the changing place of the Third Reich in the national historical imagination"-- Provided by publisher