The Holocaust and its Contexts: History, Cinema and Politics since 1945

Machtans, K.; Ruehl, M.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349311101

DOI: 10.1057/9781137032386

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 300