Overview
- Presents a new bottom-up approach to the topic of film in occupied territories
- Uses case studies from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and the Soviet Union
- Offers a uniquely transnational approach to this area of study
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book analyses the film industries and cinema cultures of Nazi-occupied countries (1939-1945) from the point of view of individuals: local captains of industry, cinema managers, those working for film studios and officials authorized to navigate film policy. The book considers these people from a historical perspective, taking into account their career before the occupation and, where relevant, pays attention to their post-war lives. The perspectives of these historical agents” contributes to an understanding of how top-down orders and haphazard signals from the occupying administration were moulded, adjusted and distorted in the process of their translation and implementation. This edited collection offers a more dynamic and less deterministic approach to research on the international expansion of Third-Reich cinema in World War Two; an approach that strives to balance the role of individual agency with the structural determinants. The case studies presented in this book coverthe territories of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and the Soviet Union.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pavel Skopal is Associate Professor and department head at the Department of Film Studies and Audio-visual Culture, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. His recent books include The Cinema of the North Triangle (2014) and Cinema in Service of the State (2015, co-edited with Lars Karl). Skopal has published in international journals including Film History, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, and Convergence.
Roel Vande Winkel is Associate Professor in Film & TV Studies at KU Leuven and at LUCA School of Arts, Belgium. He is associate editor of Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, and his recent books include Researching Newsreels. Local, National and Transnational Case Studies (2018, with Ciara Chambers and Mats Jönsson), Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship around the World (2013, with Daniel Biltereyst) and Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema (2011 revised, with David Welch).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Film Professionals in Nazi-Occupied Europe
Book Subtitle: Mediation Between the National-Socialist Cultural “New Order” and Local Structures
Editors: Pavel Skopal, Roel Vande Winkel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61634-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61633-5Published: 24 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61636-6Published: 25 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61634-2Published: 23 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 274
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Cinema and TV, European Culture, Conflict Studies, History of World War II and the Holocaust