Dietrich's Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film

by Erica Carter

This text looks at the star system under the Third Reich. Following the experiments of Weimar, much of cinema after 1933 became part of a wider Nazi backlash against modernism in all its forms. This study contributes to contemporary debates concerning the historical study of film spectatorship.

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Erica Carter is Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Warwick and author of How German is She?: Postwar West German Reconstruction and the Consuming Woman (1997).

Source: Macmillan