Thomas Doherty

Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939

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Produktbeschreibung

Recapturing what ordinary Americans saw on the screen during the emerging Nazi threat, Thomas Doherty reclaims forgotten films. He recounts how the disproportionately Jewish backgrounds of the executives of the studios and the workers on the payroll shaded reactions to what was never simply a business decision. As Europe hurtled toward war, a proxy battle waged in Hollywood over how to conduct business with the Nazis, how to cover Hitler and his victims in the newsreels, and whether to address or ignore Nazism in Hollywood feature films. Should Hollywood lie low, or stand tall and sound the alarm?

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Produktdetails

• Film & Culture
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 141mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9780231163934
• ISBN-10: 0231163932
• Artikelnr.: 42149041

Autorenporträt

Thomas Doherty is professor of American studies at Brandeis University. His previous books include Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934; Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture; and Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Judenfilm!
1. Hollywood–Berlin–Hollywood
"The Hitler Anti-Jew Thing"
The Aryanization of American Imports
The Aryanization of Hollywood's Payroll
2. Hitler, "A Blah Show Subject"
The Disappearance of Jews qua Jews
The Unmaking of The Mad Dog of Europe
"What about the Jews
The Story of a Hollywood Girl in Naziland: I Was a Captive of Nazi Germany
(1936)
3. The Nazis in the Newsreels
"The Swastika Man"
"Naziganda"
4. The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League
"Unheil Hitler!"
The Politics of Celebrity
5. Mussolini Jr. Goes Hollywood
6. The Spanish Civil War in Hollywood
"Censored Pap!" Walter Wanger's Blockade (1938)
Loyalist Red Screen Propaganda
7. Foreign Imports
"German Tongue Talkers"
Anti-Nazism in the Arty Theaters
"Nazi Scrammers"
8. "The Blight of Radical Propaganda"
Trouble from Rome Over Idiot's Delight (1939)
Trouble from Berlin Over The Road Back (1937)
Trouble from Washington with the Dies Committee
9. Inside Nazi Germany with the March of Time
10. "Grim Reaper Material"
History Unreels
"The Present Persecutions in Germany"
11. There Is No Room for Leni Riefenstahl in Hollywood
12. "The Only Studio with Any Guts"
The Warner Bros. Patriotic Shorts
The Activist Moguls
"The Picture That Calls a Swastika a Swastika!": Confessions of a Nazi Spy
(1939)
13. Hollywood Goes to War
Epilogue: The Motion Picture Memory of Nazism
Thanks and Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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"Meticulously researched and captivating." - Noah Isenberg Times Literary Studies