Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Living Photography: Film and the City -- 2. On Screen: The Search for Authenticity -- 3. Off Screen: Führerstadt and the Limits of Social Control -- 4. Rubbled: Remnants of a Nazi City -- Epilogue. Filmstadt Hamburg -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
The Nazi regime imagined film as a powerful tool to shape National Socialist subjects. Tracing discourses around film production and film consumption in the city of Hamburg, On Screen and Off illustrates how Nazi ideology was envisaged, imagined, experienced, and occasionally even fought over