Cinema and the Swastika

This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically, politically and culturally - the film industries of 20 countries and regions either occupied by, friendly with or neutral towards Nazi Germany.

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

Introduction Europe's New Hollywood? The German Film Industry Under Nazi Rule, 1933-1945; D.Welch & R.Vande Winkel 'European Cinema for Europe!' The International Film Chamber, 1935-42; B.G.Martin German Attempts to Penetrate the Spanish-speaking Film Markets, 1936-1942; L.Jarvinen & F.Peredo-Castro Between Resistance and Collaboration: Austrian Cinema and Nazism Before and During the Annexation, 1933-45; R.von Dassanowsky German Influence on Belgian Cinema, 1933-45: from Low-Profile Presence to Downright Colonisation; R.Vande Winkel Nazi Film Politics in Brazil, 1933-42; L.Nazario The Influence of German Cinema on Newly Established Croatian Cinematography, 1941-45; D.Rafaelic A Dangerous Neighbourhood: German Cinema in the Czechoslovak Region, 1933-45; I.Klimes The Attempted Nazification of French Cinema, 1934-44; B.Bowles Cinema Goes to War: the German Film Policy in Greece during the Occupation, 1941-44; E.Sifaki 'Competitor or Compatriot? Hungarian Film in the Shadow of the Swastika', 1933-44; D.S.Frey A War Within the War: Italy, Film, Propaganda and the Quest for Cultural Hegemony in Europe (1933-43); A.A.Kallis Celluloid Competition: German-Japanese Film Relations, 1929-45; J.Hansen From Dawn to Young Eagles : The (Failed) Attempt of Germanisation and Nazification of Luxembourg Through Cinema, 1933-1944; P.Lesch Dutch-German Film Relations Under German Pressure and Nazi Occupation, 1933-45; I.Schiweck From Will to Reality - Norwegian Film During the Nazi Occupation, 1940-45; B.Sorenssen Brown-Red Shadows: The Influence of Third Reich and Soviet Cinema on Afrikaans Film; K.Tomaselli & M.Eckardt Film and Politics in South-East Europe: Germany as 'leading cultural nation'; T.Kirk German Films on the Spanish Market Before, During and After the Civil War; M.A. Paz & J.Montero Swedish Film and Germany, 1933-45; R.Wright Film Propaganda and the Balance between Neutrality and Alignment: Nazi Films in Switzerland, 1933-45; G.Haver 'A thin stream issuing through closedlock gates': German Cinema and the United Kingdom, 1933-45; J.Fox German Films in America, 1933-45: Public Diplomacy and an Uncoordinated Information Campaign; D.Culbert German Film Politics in the Occupied Eastern Territories, 1941-45; R.Forster Select Bibliography