![]() The content is extremely well presented and referenced, with an excellent index, select bibliography and black and white images illuminating film posters and historic photographs from the period. 'The papers collected in this volume offer new and diverse material invaluable as a resource to film students and historians alike, as well as being a fascinating companion to the films produced under the Third Reich. Each essay is a precise, informative piece about the chosen country or region, introducing, indeed for the first time, film industries usually left out of Third Reich cinema studies.' - Christelle Le Faucheur, H-Net The essays are extremely informative, raising new issues about cultural imperialism and consumerism during the National Socialist era. 'This innovative collection on the Third Reich should trigger new research. Tobias Hochscherf, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 'The chapters address the complex issues that surround the international dimension of Third Reich Cinema and thus reinvigorate academic discourses dealing with this controversial era. This book belongs in the reference collection of anyone engaged in the study of German politics, culture or film history from 1933 until 1945.' - Horst Claus, Filmblatt The contributions are stimulating, informative, and jargon-free. 'Cinema and the Swastika was rightfully awarded the Willy Haas Award for outstanding publication on German cinema at Cinefest 2007 in Hamburg. Detailed footnotes and references lead to further, deeper research results.' The concise contributions, providing dense and comprehensible information, form outstanding introductory texts. 'The crude and moralising conceptualisation of film propaganda that devalues the academic validity of so many works on Nazi film propaganda is absent. 'A revelatory book which transforms our sense of German and European film history' ![]() For more information see the prize website: Winner of the 2007 Willy Haas Award for books on German cinema.
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