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Nazi film melodrama /

Cultural productions in the Third Reich often served explicit propaganda functions of legitimating racism and glorifying war and militarism. Likewise, the proliferation of domestic and romance films in Nazi Germany also represented an ideological stance. Rather than reinforcing traditional gender ro...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Heins, Laura
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : melodrama in the Nazi cinema, the domestic war
  • An aesthetics of aggression : German fascist vs. classical Hollywood melodrama
  • The Nazi modernization of sex : romance melodrama
  • Breaking out of the bourgeois home : domestic melodrama
  • Germany's great love vs. the American fortress : home front melodrama
  • Epilogue : reprivatization after Nazi cinema : postwar German melodrama.