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SABINE HAKE Popular Cinema of the Third Reich UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS AUSTIN
Copyright © 2001 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2001 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, University of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713-7819. �� The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Hake, Sabine, 1956– Popular cinema of the Third Reich / Sabine Hake.— 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-292-73457-3 (cloth : alk. paper)— isbn 0-292-73458-1 (pbk : alk. paper) 1. National socialism and motion pictures. 2. Motion pictures— Germany—History. I. Title. pn1995.9.n36 h34 2001 791.43�0943�09043—dc21 2001027790
Page 2 and 3: POPULAR CINEMA OF THE THIRD REICH
Page 6 and 7: CONTENTS Preface vii 1. Popular Cin
Page 8 and 9: PREFACE Why another study on the ci
Page 10 and 11: elements in the productive encounte
Page 12 and 13: culture and between the public and
Page 14 and 15: national cinema into international
Page 16 and 17: Mary-Beth O’Brien, Stephen Brockm
Page 18 and 19: popular genres and styles, the favo
Page 20 and 21: lemished by the times in which it w
Page 22 and 23: could pretend that fascist ideology
Page 24 and 25: tion that, “Instead of determinin
Page 26 and 27: codes, and the heavy loans from bou
Page 28 and 29: separated from the almost programma
Page 30 and 31: definition of popular cinema can th
Page 32 and 33: fused with, folk culture, which is
Page 34 and 35: tion of the spectator in the realiz
Page 36 and 37: mestic industry and its need for pr
Page 38 and 39: Hence its audience was constantly a
Page 40 and 41: the German cinema, a sensibility th
Page 42 and 43: tained cinema after 1933 and provid
Page 44 and 45: director or producer could continue
Page 46 and 47: the musicality of his direction in
Page 48 and 49: 1. Das häßliche Mädchen (1933, T
Page 50 and 51: However, at no point does she enter
Page 52 and 53: Lotte rehired, this time as the dir
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subsequent efforts at adaptation an
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2. Viktor und Viktoria (1933, Victo
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the spectator to partake in the ill
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early slapstick comedies of Lubitsc
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3 CINEMA, SET DESIGN, AND THE DOMES
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sensual and emotional excess. The r
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cism first presented by Walter Benj
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spaces to the largely decorative fu
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worked on numerous Paul Martin come
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of surface phenomena. In their view
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liner in Allotria (Tomfoolery, 1936
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young sculptor in Weimar Berlin who
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terity. The two love stories that I
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Berlin Building Exhibitions. The pi
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several light-colored carpets with
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4AT THE MOVIES FILM AUDIENCES AND T
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material, must we conclude that, to
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Efforts to attract more regulars in
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practice of “locked doors” (i.e
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from the perspective of those group
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In the absence of any measurable re
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gional differences would eventually
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ures, Walter Panofsky distinguished
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women and cinema—reason enough fo
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produced by sociological studies, s
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the form of romantic comedies, film
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man,” is clearly recognizable as
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Lowry has relied on such opposition
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some of Harold Lloyd, Edith Hamann
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1933 as an ongoing reflection on th
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ity projected by one of the leading
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figurations—but less through his
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7. Heinz Rühmann, Terra Advertisem
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sence of man. His performance encou
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To conclude: As the prototype of th
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Sirk continues to feature prominent
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duction and reception. At the same
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Delineating the formative influence
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Garvenberg (Willy Birgel) and his b
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aerial shots of Berlin’s historic
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sical encoding of otherness. As an
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seek the spiritual rewards availabl
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the articulation, however compromis
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dominant ideology, Linda Schulte-Sa
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unhealthy need for self-discovery,
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7 THE FOREIGN AND THE FAMILIAR ON G
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The myth of the Hollywood dream fac
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office hits. Paramount’s reputati
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Less frequently, Hollywood became i
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motion-picture theaters, including
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MGM maintained their Berlin offices
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and often marred by insufficient ti
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They included the Seventy-ninth Str
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and they included American Nazi sym
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newsreel Sieg im Westen (Victory in
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of Hollywood films—and, in so doi
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sion policies, and, of greatest rel
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a clear sense of national identity.
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and had contributed significantly t
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panion piece, Café Electric (1927)
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yond local and national differences
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10. Wiener Blut (1942, Viennese Blo
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too, becomes associated with “fem
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11. Operette (1940, Operetta), Adve
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Ringtheater intensify after her fir
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the so-called Überläuferfilme. Co
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drop of an artificial Vienna re-cre
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9THE POWER OF THOUGHT REDEFINING PO
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ciliation—for other mass cultural
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film journalists and scholars over
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And these, in turn, were determined
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ative subjectivity, film art achiev
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debates because of their greater ab
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entertainment. Such thinking propel
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era’s point of view find a place,
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of the racial community in resolvin
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ception of mise-en-scène. In the s
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equally noticeable shift from senti
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the following thematic overview and
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play rather than a didactic device
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The disciplining force behind these
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prosecutor who neglects her husband
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tions of war. The later Harvey film
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tender impulses that hitherto susta
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14. Unser Fräulein Doktor (1940, O
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ing sexuality. As a woman, Elisabet
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11 THE LEGACIES OF THE PAST IN THE
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logical innovations, artistic movem
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screenplay about the pervasiveness
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the theater director cancels a Zuck
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ole in the rebuilding of the German
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the privileges of traditional mascu
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trauma, it might be argued, found e
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joint appearance in the Viktor Tour
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transformation of a figure of moral
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of the eponymous 1924 film by F. W.
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come—its own past played a key ro
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equally problematic use of “featu
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Genrefilm in der Weimarer Republik
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21. Based on detailed analysis prov
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und Film-Bauten (Reinbek: Rowohlt,
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ledge & Kegan Paul, 1982), pp. 77-9
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33. Anon., “Das ungelöste Rätse
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Langemarck to Verdun” (pp. 45-76)
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Berlin and the conference organized
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Press, 1991), p. 274. Even someone
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1936. For the few articles dealing
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press, see “Jüdischer USA.-Kampf
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21. Hugo Jury, quoted by Oliver Rat
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The book is based on “Das Gesetz
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Third Reich, see Klaus Vondung, Vö
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and Ursula Bessen, Trümmer und Tr
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Jens Schumann, Hans Albers: Seine F
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Hull, David Stewart. 1969. Film in
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Eggebrecht, Axel, 3 Eggerth, Marta,
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Liebelei (1933), 29, 155 Liebeneine
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Weiss Ferdl, 143 weiße Hölle vom
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