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Article: Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Germany.
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- The Germanic Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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Linda Schulte-Sasse, Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema Durham and London: Duke UP, 1996.
Linda Schulte-Sasse has previously tackled the problematic concept of the "fascist aesthetic" in examining Leni Riefenstahl's narrative films along the semiotic grid of the German Burgerliche Trauerspiel. This new study of Nazi cinema builds on her previous research by attempting to look at film rather than the body politic. As the author adroitly puts it, "we can perhaps take movies as a starting point and examine how they harbor, transform, exceed, and undermine political ideology" (xiii). Schulte-Sasse achieves an informed and compelling ...