Entertainment films under National Socialism

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The distinction between entertainment films, on the one hand, and propaganda films, on the other, plays a greater role in Nazi film research than in any other area of ​​media research. There are almost 200 propaganda films, more than 1000 entertainment films - v. a. Comedy, revue, operetta and hit films, love, adventure, crime, marriage, women, home and family films - opposite. In view of the fact that the film production industry was completely brought into line by National Socialist film policy , German film history research has repeatedly found itself challenged to search for traces of subtle and hidden propaganda in these entertainment films - in which open National Socialist propaganda cannot be proven. Also the basic social statements of the Nazi entertainment films - z. B. the image of women , see Kora Terry - special attention has been paid.

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literature

Nazi entertainment film in general

  • Gerhard Jagschitz , film propaganda in the Third Reich; in: Peter Konlechner , Peter Kubelka (eds.), Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda in Film 1933–1945, Vienna ( Austrian Film Museum ) 1972, pp. 19–39
  • Siegfried Kracauer, cult of distraction; in: Karsten Witte, Theory of Cinema, Frankfurt 1973, pp. 230–235
  • Helga Belach (ed.), We dance around the world. German revue films 1933–1945, Munich (Hanser) 1979
  • Klaus Gietinger , Ideology in National Socialist Fiction; in: Media and Education 26 (1982) Issue 2, pp. 84–92
  • Erika Kayser, German entertainment films of the 20's and 30's. Studies using the example of the films with Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch, Osnabrück 1983
  • Gerd Albrecht, "Entertainment is also important in terms of state policy"; in: Das Parlament 37 (1987), No. 4, pp. 16-17
  • Marlies Krebstakies, National Socialist Principles in the Ufa Feature Film: Volksgemeinschaft - Führerprinzip - Rassismus; in: The Ufa, ed. v. Bezirksamt Tempelhof, Berlin ( Elefanten-Press-Verlag ) 1987, pp. 66–85, ISBN 3885202255
  • William Kretschmer, The Entertainment Film in the Third Reich; in: Deutsches Filmgut 1930–1945. Documentation for the film and seminar series of the Filmgalerie Regensburg, ed. v. Film working group V., Regensburg 1988, p. 26f
  • Rolf Giesen, laugh bombs. The great film comedians. From silent films to the 1940s, Munich (Heyne) 1991
  • Andrea Winkler-Mayerhöfer, star cult as a means of propaganda. Studies in entertainment film in the Third Reich, Munich (Ölschläger) 1992
  • Rainer Rother, The Effects of Entertainment; in: Wolfgang Jacobsen, Babelsberg. A film studio. 1912-1992, Berlin (Argon) 1992, pp. 175-204
  • Karsten Witte, Film under National Socialism. Glare and dissolve; in: Wolfgang Jacobsen u. a., History of German Film, Stuttgart, Weimar JB Metzler Verlag 2004, pp. 119–170
  • Karsten Witte, laughing heirs, great day. Film comedy in the Third Reich, Berlin (Vorwerk 8) 1995

Depiction of women in Nazi films

  • Karen Ellwanger, made-to-measure woman. The type of woman of the forties in the character system of the film costume; in: Staging of Power. Aesthetic Fascination in Fascism, ed. vd Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (Nishen) 1987, pp. 119–128
  • Heide Schlüpmann, Fascist Mirages of Female Autonomy; in: Frauen und Film, 44/45 (October 1988), pp. 44-66
  • Ute Bechdolf, wish pictures? Women in National Socialist Entertainment Films, Tübingen (Tübinger Vereinigung für Volkskunde e.V.) 1992
  • Dora Traudisch, maternity with icing? Misogynist propaganda in the Nazi feature film, Pfaffenweiler (Centaurus) 1993
  • Angela Vaupel, Women in Nazi Films, with special consideration of the feature film, Hamburg 2005 (Dr. Kovac Verlag)

Theoretical work on the ideological content of Nazi entertainment films

  • Verena Lueken , On the narrative structure of the National Socialist film. Attempt a structural analysis, ed. from the research focus on mass media and communication at the University of Siegen, Siegen 1981
  • Stephen Lowry, Pathos and Politics. Ideology in feature films of National Socialism, Tübingen (Niemeyer) 1991
  • Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien, Nazi cinema as enchantment. The politics of entertainment in the Third Reich, Rochester, NY (Camden House) 2004 (Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture).
  • Birgitta Welzel, The arbitrariness of the cinematic message. Evidenced by the ideological "content" of 120 Nazi feature films, Rheinfelden, Berlin (Schäuble) 1993