Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema 1928-1936

<p>Hitler's Machtergreifung or seizure of power on January 30 1933 marked the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the Third Reich and German film scholarship has generally accepted this date as the break between Weimar and Nazi-era film as well. This collection of essays interrogates the continuities and discontinuities in German cinema before and after January 1933 and their relationship to the various crises of the years 1928 to 1936 in seven areas: politics the economy concepts of race and ethnicity the making of cinema stars genre cinema film technologies and aesthetics and German-international film relations. Focusing both on canonical and lesser-known works the essays analyze a representative sample of films and genres from the period. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Weimar and Third Reich cinema and of the sociopolitical economic racial artistic and technological spheres in both late Weimar and the early Third Reich as well as to film scholars in general.</p>