Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife

by Eric Rentschler

Book Overview

German cinema of the Third Reich, even a half-century 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 a thousand German feature films that premiered during the reign of National Socialism survive as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674576403
• ISBN13: 9780674576407
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"