Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema

Cinema and the Swastika is the very first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of the Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to economically, politically and culturally infiltrate the film industries of 20 countries or regions Nazi Germany occupied, befriended or entertained ’neutral’ relationships with. Countries and regions covered included Western and Central Europe, Italy, Japan, Scandinavia, Spain, the South Americas, the USA and (in a new chapter for the paperback edition) the occupied Eastern Territories (Soviet Union, Baltic States and Poland). The book also features assessments of the International Film Chamber, through which propaganda minister Goebbels tried to take lead of the ’Film Europe’ movement, and of Hispano Film, through which German cinema tried to conquer Spanish markets. Cinema and the Swastika includes contributions from internationally acclaimed specialists. The hardback version of this book, which has been revised for this paperback edition, was enthusiastically received and won the 2007 Willy Haas Award for books on German cinema.

BRETT BOWLES Assistant Professor of French Studies, the State University of New York, Albany, USA DAVID CULBERT John L. Loos Professor of History, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA MICHAEL ECKARDT Visiting Scholar, Stellenbosch University, South Africa JO FOX Senior Lecturer in Modern History, the University of Durham, UK RALF FORSTER Film historian, the Filmmuseum Potsdam, and Lecturer, Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany DAVID FREY Assistant Professor of History, the United States Military Academy at West Point, USA JANINE HANSEN Graduate, the Ostasiatisches Seminar at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany GIANNI HAVER Professor at the Institut de sociologie des communications de masse (ISCM), the Université de Lausanne, France LISA JARVINEN Assistant Professor of History, La Salle University, Philadelphia, USA ARISTOTLE A. KALLIS Senior Lecturer in European Studies, the University of Lancaster, UK TIM KIRK Lecturer in European History, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK IVAN KLIMES Head of the Department fo Film Theory and History, National Film Archives, Prague, Czechoslovakia PAUL LESCH Lecturer, University of Luxembourg and the Miami University John E. Dolibois European Center, Luxembourg BENJAMIN GEORGE MARTIN Post-Doctoral Fellow, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany JULIO MONTERO Senior Lecturer, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain LUIZ NAZARIO Professor of Film History, the Fine Arts School of the Federal University of Minas Gerais MARIA ANTONIA PAZ Professor at the Faculty of Information Science, the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain FRANCISCO PEREDO-CASTRO Professor/Researcher, the Faculty of Political and Social Science of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) DANIEL RAFAELIC Film Historian currently working in Croatian cinematheque INGO SCHIWECK PhD Graduate, History and Political Science in Germany and the Netherlands EIRINI SIFAKI Lecturer in Film History, the School of Film Studies, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece BJORN SORENSSEN Professor at the Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Trondheim, Norway KEYAN TOMASELLI Professor of Culture, Communication and Media Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa ROEL VANDE WINKEL Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium ROBERT VON DASSANOWSKY Professor of German and Film Studies, the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA DAVID WELCH Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda and War, the University of Kent, UK ROCHELLE WRIGHT Professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies, the University of Illinois, USA