The Ministry of Amusements: Film, Commerce, and Politics in Germany, 1917–1945

Central European History

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 77-88

  Cocks, Geoffrey ^a  

^a Albion College   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85008566466     PISSN: 00089389     EISSN: 15691616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0008938900013376     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. Leni Riefenstahl, A Memoir (New York, 1994), 292 cf. idem, Memoiren (Munich, 1987), 393.
2. Kreimeier, Ufa Story, 176.
3. Rentschler, Ministry of Illusion, 15, 91, 201.
4. Kreimeier, Ufa Story, 126.
5. Kreimeier, Ufa Story, 149.
6. Mary Nolan, Imagining America, Modernizing Germany: Fordism and Economic Reform in the Weimar Republic (New York, 1994); Detlev J.K. Peukert, Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life, trans. Richard Deveson (New Haven, 1987), 77-78, 180, 247.
7. Kreimeier, Ufa Story, 239.
8. Ufa Story., 233.
9. Rentschler, Ministry of Illusion, 7, 216.
10. David Stewart Hull, Film in the Third Reich: Art and Propaganda in Nazi Germany (Berkeley, 1969).
11. Rentschler, Ministry of Illusion, 16-24.
12. Ministry of Illusion., 39, 43.
13. Susan Sontag, ‘Fascinating Fascism’ (1975), in Sontag, Under the Sign of Saturn (New York, 1981), 71-105.
14. Rentschler, Ministry of Illusion, 78; see also 92: Trenker's film suggests some of the same dark American qualities about the Heimat, an ambiguity captured in Freud's analysis of the word ‘uncanny’ (unheimlich); Geoffrey Cocks, ‘Bringing the Holocaust Home: The Freudian Dynamics of Kubrick's The Shining,’ Psychoanalytic Review 78 (1991): 103-25.
15. Rentschler, Ministry of Illusion, 94.
16. Ministry of Illusion., 122.
17. Michael Geyer, ‘Resistance as Ongoing Project: Visions of Order, Obligations to Strangers, and Struggles for Civil Society, 1933-1990,’ in Resistance Against the Third Reich, 1933-1990, ed. Michael Geyer and John W. Boyer (Chicago, 1992), 325-50.
18. Rentschler, Ministry of Illusion, 135.
19. Ministry of Illusion., 154.
20. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary German and the Holocaust (New York, 1996).
21. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, ‘Motives, Causes, and Alibis: A Reply to My Critics,’ New Republic, 23 December 1996, 37-45. Goldhagen also argues that the police battalions who carried out many of the mass murders of Jews were representative of Germans as a whole since their members came from all social classes. But even if police battalions were representative of German society and dominated by anti-Semitism, Goldhagen fails to consider whether choice of employment in the police selects out those from any social class who would more likely be anti-Semitic and/or more willing to ‘follow orders.’ See also Franklin H. Littel, ed., Hyping the Holocaust: Scholars Answer Goldhagen (East Rockaway, NY, 1997).
22. Reichspropagandaamt Berlin, Vertrauliche Mitteilungenl, 27 04 1940, in Theater und Film im Dritten Reich: Eine Dokumentation, ed. Josef Wulf (Hamburg, 1996), 448.
23. Paul Monaco, Cinema and Society: France and Germany during the Twenties (New York, 1976).
24. Kreimeier, Ufa Story, 287, 311, 369, 372; Rentschler, Ministry of Illusion, 136, 218, 235.
25. Geoffrey Cocks, ‘The Old as New: The Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial and Medicine in Modern Germany,’ in Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany, ed. Manfred Berg and Geoffrey Cocks (Cambridge, 1997), 173-91.
26. Kreimeier, Ufa Story, 175-76.