The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like Downfall in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their implications for the changing place of the Third Reich in the national historical imagination.

AXEL BANGERT Junior Research Fellow, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK MICHAEL BUTTER Junior Research Fellow, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Germany MICHAEL ELM Lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel THOMAS ELSAESSER Professor of Film and Television Studies, the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands SABINE HAKE Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture, University of Texas at Austin, USA JOHANNES V. MOLTKE Associate Professor of German Studies and Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan, USA ERIC RENTSCHLER Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, USA MICHAEL D. RICHARDSON Associate Professor of German and Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Ithaca College, New York, USA KERSTIN STUTTERHEIM Professor of Media Studies and Aesthetics, the Hochschule fur Film und Fernsehen Konrad Wolf, Potsdam, Germany MICHAEL TOTEBERG Film Critic and Director of the Agentur fur Medienrechte, Rowohlt publishing house, Germany

About the Author
KAROLIN MACHTANS is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Connecticut College, USA. From 2006 to 2010, she was DAAD Lecturer at Sidney Sussex College and St John's College at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research interests lie in twentieth and twenty-first-century German literature and film, Turkish-German and German-Jewish literature, representations of the Holocaust, and the interrelations between literature and history. Her first book, which examines the autobiographical writings of Saul Friedlander and Ruth Kluger in the context of their scholarly work, was published in 2009 by Max Niemeyer Verlag. She is currently working on a book-length study of the representation of Istanbul in German literature and film.
MARTIN A. RUEHL is Lecturer in German Thought at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Cambridge University, UK, specializing in the cultural and intellectual history of modern Germany. His research concentrates on the myths and memories that have shaped German society and culture in the twentieth century. He has published books and articles on Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, and Stefan George. For the Cambridge MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures, he lectures on fascist cinema and the representations of fascism in post-war European film.



Reviews

' superbly researched and presented Editors Machtans and Ruehl greatly enrich our understanding of Hitler's representations in German cinema and television.' - Alan Marcus, University of Aberdeen, UK

' a thought-provoking collection, with some outstanding essays. This volume

makes an important intervention in debates about film and the Third Reich, the depiction of history on screen, and the politics of memory.' - Jo Fox, Durham University, UK

'With historical precision and theoretical nuance, Hitler Films from Germany illuminates German cinema's enduring fascination with Hitler. A rich and revealing book about a past that refuses to go away.' - Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley, USA

'Hitler Films from Germany is an excellent collection of meticulously researched scholarship that demonstrates the complex and contradictory ways in which Hitler figures as an object of fascination in past and contemporary German media productions.' - Monatshefte

Book Information
ISBN 9780230229907
Author K. Machtans
Format Hardback
Page Count 300
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan