Drowning out the Newsreel
Katie Trumpener: Nazi Cinema, 12 March 2009
Nazis and the Cinema
by Susan Tegel.
Continuum, 324 pp., £30, April 2008,978 1 84725 211 1 Show More
by Susan Tegel.
Continuum, 324 pp., £30, April 2008,
Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema
edited by Roel Vande Winkel and David Welch.
Palgrave, 342 pp., £62, February 2007,978 1 4039 9491 2 Show More
edited by Roel Vande Winkel and David Welch.
Palgrave, 342 pp., £62, February 2007,
Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation 1939-45
by Peter Demetz.
Farrar, Straus, 274 pp., $25, April 2009,978 0 374 28126 7 Show More
by Peter Demetz.
Farrar, Straus, 274 pp., $25, April 2009,
“... In fact, many cinemagoers avoided or actively resisted German blandishments. Until Pearl Harbor, Peter Demetz remembers in his occupation memoir, Prague in Danger, cinemas in the city played American musicals, including the Broadway Melody series, to ‘packed houses’ that included the city’s many jazz-obsessed swing kids. In a novel set during the ... ”
