Charlie Chaplin and the Nazis
Title | Charlie Chaplin and the Nazis PDF eBook |
Author | Norbert Aping |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 2023-12-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1476649405 |
Until recently, it was assumed that the Nazis agitated against Chaplin from 1931 to 1933, and then again from 1938, when his plan to make The Great Dictator became public. This book demonstrates that Nazi agitation against Chaplin was in fact a constant from 1926 through the Third Reich. When The Gold Rush was released in the Weimar Republic in 1926, the Nazis began to fight Chaplin, whom they alleged to be Jewish, and attempted to expose him as an intellectual property thief whose fame had faded. In early 1935, the film The Gold Rush was explicitly banned from German theaters. In 1936, the NSDAP Main Archives opened its own file on Chaplin, and the same year, he became entangled in the machinery of Nazi press control. German diplomats were active on a variety of international levels to create a mood against The Great Dictator. The Nazis' dehumanizing attacks continued until 1944, when an opportunity to capitalize on the Joan Barry scandal arose. This book paints a complicated picture of how the Nazis battled Chaplin as one of their most reviled foreign artists.
Charlie Chaplin
Title | Charlie Chaplin PDF eBook |
Author | Adolphe Nysenholc |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2014-07-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 311085774X |
The Emergence of Film Culture
Title | The Emergence of Film Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Malte Hagener |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2014-09-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1782384243 |
Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrant film culture emerged in Europe. Film festivals and schools were established; film theory and history was written that took cinema seriously as an art form; and critical writing that created the film canon flourished. This scene was decidedly transnational and creative, overcoming traditional boundaries between theory and practice, and between national and linguistic borders. This new European film culture established film as a valid form of social expression, as an art form, and as a political force to be reckoned with. By examining the extraordinarily rich and creative uses of cinema in the interwar period, we can examine the roots of film culture as we know it today.
The Charlie Chaplin Fun Book
Title | The Charlie Chaplin Fun Book PDF eBook |
Author | Charlie Chaplin |
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Pages | 40 |
Release | 1915 |
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Charlie Chaplin collection
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The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film
Title | The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Lynde Barker |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 041589915X |
Through a series of detailed film case histories ranging from The Great Dictator to Hiroshima mon amour to The Lives of Others, The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection explores the genesis and recurrence of antifascist aesthetics as it manifests in the WWII, Cold War and Post-Wall historical periods. Emerging during a critical moment in film history—1930s/1940s Hollywood— cinematic antifascism was representative of the international nature of antifascist alliances, with the amalgam of film styles generated in émigré Hollywood during the WWII period reflecting a dialogue between an urgent political commitment to antifascism and an equally intense commitment to aesthetic complexity. Opposed to a fascist aesthetics based on homogeneity, purity and spectacle, these antifascist films project a radical beauty of distortion, heterogeneity, fragmentation and loss. By juxtaposing documentation and the modernist techniques of surrealism and expressionism, the filmmakers were able to manifest a non-totalizing work of art that still had political impact. Drawing on insights from film and cultural studies, aesthetic and ethical philosophy, and socio-political theory, this book argues that the artistic struggles with political commitment and modernist strategies of representation during the 1930s and 40s resulted in a distinctive, radical aesthetic form that represents an alternate strand of post-modernism.
Charlie Chaplin collection
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