Antisemitism in film comedy in Nazi Germany:

Today many Germans remain nostalgic about "classic" film comedies created during the 1930s, viewing them as a part of the Nazi era that was not tainted with antisemitism. In Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany, Valerie Weinstein scrutinizes these comic productions and demonstrates...

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Main Author: Weinstein, Valerie 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana Indiana University Press [2019]
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Summary:Today many Germans remain nostalgic about "classic" film comedies created during the 1930s, viewing them as a part of the Nazi era that was not tainted with antisemitism. In Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany, Valerie Weinstein scrutinizes these comic productions and demonstrates that film comedy, despite its innocent appearance, was a critical component in the effort to separate "Jews" from "Germans," physically, economically, and artistically
Item Description:Inhalt: Overt and inferential antisemitism in Nazi writings and the film trade press, Overt antisemitism, Jewish difference, and colonial whiteness in early Third Reich film comedy: Nur nicht weich werden, Susanne! and Die Blume von Hawaii, Comic Ersatz: Viktor und Viktoria and Glückskinder, Wenn wir alle Engel wären as the model of a racialized german humor, Capitalism, colonialism, and the white Jew in April! April" and Donogoo Tonka, Mistaken identity and the masked Jew in Robert und Bertram, Jewish absence, epistemic murk, and the aesthetics of cremation in Münchhausen and Die Feuerzangenbowle
Physical Description:xi, 281 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780253040718
9780253040701

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