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Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939

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Discusses the impact of the Nazi takeover and dictatorship in Germany on Hollywood film production, as well as on the policy concerning foreign film screening in the USA. The Hollywood studios, for which Germany always had been an important market, had to adapt their production to the sensitivity of the "new Germany" if they wanted to show the films in Germany, e.g. not to make films with Jewish actors in central roles and to abstain from criticism of Nazi racial policies. Nevertheless, some U.S. filmmakers did make anti-Nazi films in 1933-41, and some studios severed their contacts with their German counterparts. Dwells, inter alia, on the Nazi policy of "Aryanization" of the German film industry in 1933-34 and on the cold reception of Leni Riefenstahl in the USA, and especially in Hollywood, in 1938 - her visit to America was overshadowed by the "Kristallnacht" pogrom in Germany. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Title Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939 / Thomas Doherty.
Publisher New York : Columbia University Press
Creation Date 2013
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-408) and index.
Content Prologue: Judenfilm! -- Hollywood-Berlin-Hollywood -- Hitler, a "blah show subject" -- The Nazis in the newsreels -- The Hollywood anti-Nazi league -- Mussolini Jr. goes Hollywood -- The Spanish Civil War in Hollywood -- Foreign imports -- "The blight of radical propaganda" -- Inside Nazi Germany with the March of Time -- "Grim reaper material" -- There is no room for Leni Riefenstahl in Hollywood -- "The only studio with any guts" -- Hollywood goes to war -- Epilogue: the motion picture memory of Nazism.
Series Film and culture
Extent ix, 429 pages : illustrations
24 cm.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2013
National Library system number 990035322120205171

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