Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife
by Eric Rentschler
Recommended by Quentin Tarantino
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German cinema of the Third Reich, even a halfcentury after Hitler's demise, still provokes extreme reactions. "Never before and in no other country," observes director Wim Wenders, "have images and language been abused so unscrupulously as here, never before and nowhere else have they been debased so deeply as vehicles to transmit lies." More than...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books.
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Quentin Tarantino
“A wonderful critical reexamination of German cinema under Joseph Goebbels.”
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