Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema PDF
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EMTERTAlMIMG THE THIRD REICH Post-Contemporary Interventions Series Editors: Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson EMTERTAIMIMG THE THIRD REICH ILLUJIOMJ OF WHOLEMEJJ 1M MAZI CIMEWA Linda Schulte-Sasse * DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Durham & London I996 © 1996 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 00 Typeset in Saban by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Puhlication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. FOR MY PARENTS EVELYN PEDERSON SCHIELE AND BURTRUM C. SCHIELE COMTEMTS List of Illustrations IX Preface xiii Introduction I I Mass Spectacle, History, Cinema: Embodiments of Social Fantasy 17 PART I Two Sides of a Coin: The "Jew" and the King as Social Fantasies 2 Courtier, Vampire, or Vermin? Jew Suss's Contradictory Effort to Render the "Jew" Other 47 3 Frederick, the Movie; or, The Return of the King's Body: Fridericus and The Great King 92 4 Building the Body Armor: Hans Steinhoff's The Old and the Young King 126 PART II Aestheticized Genius 5 Duel over the Son: Herbert Maisch's Friedrich Schiller - Triumph of a Genius 147 6 Anomaly or "Fascist Delusion of Female Autonomy"? Pabst's Neuberin Film Komodianten 176 Vlll 7 Tribulations of a Genius: Traugott Miiller's Friedemann Bach 203 PAilT III Beyond the Eighteenth Century 8 Vicious Circulation: Money and Foreignness in Nazi Film 231 Movies about Money: Hans Zerlett's Robert and Bertram and Karl Hartl's Gold 233 Foreign Contamination: Hitler Youth Quex, Hans Westmar, S.A. Man Brand, For Human Rights, and Pour Ie Merite 253 9 Nazism and Machines 274 Industry: Veit Harlan's The Ruler and Gerhard Lamprecht's Diesel 275 Radio and the Homefront: Eduard von Borsody's Request Concert and Rolf Hansen's The Great Love 288 10 Of Lies and Life: Miinchhausen's Narrative Arabesque 302 Select Bibliography 3 19 Filmography 33 r Index 339 LIST OF ILLUSTIlATIOMS 1. Young Friedrich Schiller (historical painting). 54 2. Karl Faber; Jew Suss. 54 3· Coins; Jew Suss. 74 4- Coins dissolving into ballerinas; Jew Suss. 74 5. Ballerinas; Jew Suss. 74 6. Siiss Oppenheimer in "original" garb; Jew Suss. 78 7. Siiss Oppenheimer dissolving into courtier; Jew Suss. 78 8. Siiss Oppenheimer as courtier; Jew Suss. 78 9. Karl Faber with injured hands; Jew Suss. 88 10. Subjective shot of Siiss while executed; Jew Suss. 88 11. A "God's eye" view of Suss being executed. 88 12. The executed Siiss; Jew Siiss. 89 13. Frederick on a white horse; The Chorale of Leuthen. 108 14. Unidentified Frederick in cathedral; The Lady von Barnhelm. 108 15. Frederick as a shadow; The Great King. 110 16. Frederick confronts his own picture; The Great King. IIO 17. A caricature of Frederick; The Great King. 110 18. Maria Theresa; Fridericus. II 6 19. Czarina; Fridericus. II6 20. Mme. Pompadour; Fridericus. II6 21. Men ofWiirttemberg seen through the Jew's eyes; Jew Suss. 124 22. Siiss Oppenheimer spies on men of Wiirttemberg; Jew Suss. 124
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