On Screen and Off Cinema and the Making of Nazi Hamburg

Anne Berg, "On Screen and Off: Cinema and the Making of Nazi Hamburg"
English | ISBN: 0812253809 | 2022 | 200 pages | PDF | 5 MB
On Screen and Off shows that the making of Nazism was a local affair and the Nazi city a product of more than models and plans emanating from Berlin. In Hamburg, film was key in turning this self-styled "Gateway to the World" into a "Nazi city." The Nazi regime imagined film as a powerful tool to shape National Socialist subjects. In Hamburg, those very subjects chanced upon film culture as a seemingly apolitical opportunity to articulate their own ideas about how Nazism ought to work. Tracing discourses around film production and film consumption in the city,