Cinema and the Swastika (PDF)

BRETT BOWLES Assistant Professor of French Studies, the State University of New York, Albany, USA
DAVID CULBERT John L. Loos Professor of History, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
MICHAEL ECKARDT Visiting Scholar, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
JO FOX Senior Lecturer in Modern History, the University of Durham, UK
RALF FORSTER Film historian, the Filmmuseum Potsdam, and Lecturer, Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany
DAVID FREY Assistant Professor of History, the United States Military Academy at West Point, USA
JANINE HANSEN Graduate, the Ostasiatisches Seminar at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
GIANNI HAVER Professor at the Institut de sociologie des communications de masse (ISCM), the Université de Lausanne, France
LISA JARVINEN Assistant Professor of History, La Salle University, Philadelphia, USA
ARISTOTLE A. KALLIS Senior Lecturer in European Studies, the University of Lancaster, UK
TIM KIRK Lecturer in European History, the University of Newcastle upon
Tyne, UK
IVAN KLIMES Head of the Department fo Film Theory and History, National Film Archives, Prague, Czechoslovakia
PAUL LESCH Lecturer, University of Luxembourg and the Miami University John E. Dolibois European Center, Luxembourg
BENJAMIN GEORGE MARTIN Post-Doctoral Fellow, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
JULIO MONTERO Senior Lecturer, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
LUIZ NAZARIO Professor of Film History, the Fine Arts School of the Federal University of Minas Gerais
MARIA ANTONIA PAZ Professor at the Faculty of Information Science, the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
FRANCISCO PEREDO-CASTRO Professor/Researcher, the Faculty of Political and Social Science of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
DANIEL RAFAELIC Film Historian currently working in Croatian cinematheque
INGO SCHIWECK PhD Graduate, History and Political Science in Germany and the

Winner of the 2007 Willy Haas Award for books on German cinema. For more information see the prize website: http://www.wgfilmtv.ugent.be/willyhaas_award_ENG.htm

'A revelatory book which transforms our sense of German and European film history'

Katie Trumpener, Yale University, USA

'The crude and moralising conceptualisation of film propaganda that devalues the academic validity of so many works on Nazi film propaganda is absent. The concise contributions, providing dense and comprehensible information, form outstanding introductory texts. Detailed footnotes and references lead to further, deeper research results.'

Martin Loiperdinger, H-Soz-u-Kult

'Cinema and the Swastika was rightfully awarded the Willy Haas Award for outstanding publication on German cinema at Cinefest 2007 in Hamburg. The contributions are stimulating, informative, and jargon-free. This book belongs in the reference collection of anyone engaged in the study of German politics, culture or film history from 1933 until 1945.' - Horst Claus, Filmblatt

'The chapters address the complex issues that surround the international dimension of Third Reich Cinema and thus reinvigorate academic discourses dealing with this controversial era. Strongly recommended.'

Tobias Hochscherf, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

'This innovative collection on the Third Reich should trigger new research. The essays are extremely informative, raising new issues about cultural imperialism and consumerism during the National Socialist era. Each essay is a precise, informative piece about the chosen country or region, introducing, indeed for the first time, film industries usually left out of Third Reich cinema studies.' - Christelle Le Faucheur, H-Net

'The papers collected in this volume offer new and diverse material invaluable as a resource to film students and historians alike, as well as being a fascinating companion to the