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Article: Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema. By LINDA SCHULTE-SASSE. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press. 1996. 347 pp. 52.50 [pound sterling] (paperbound 17.50 [pounds sterling]).
The word 'entertaining' in the title of this book is a reminder that Nazi films are not expected to be enjoyable, and earlier studies of these films have tended to focus on their propagandistic aspects, sometimes to the exclusion of all else, though Goebbels himself is known to have insisted that the public did not want a party political diet of pictures of marching men. Many Nazi films therefore were specifically made both to entertain mass audiences and ...