Film Professionals in Nazi-Occupied Europe. Mediation Between the National-Socialist Cultural "New Order" and Local Structures

SKOPAL, Pavel and Roel VANDE WINKEL. Film Professionals in Nazi-Occupied Europe. Mediation Between the National-Socialist Cultural "New Order" and Local Structures. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 274 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-61633-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61634-2.

Basic information

• Original name: Film Professionals in Nazi-Occupied Europe. Mediation Between the National-Socialist Cultural "New Order" and Local Structures
• Authors: SKOPAL, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Roel VANDE WINKEL (56 Belgium).
• Edition: Cham, 274 pp. 2021.
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Editorship of professional books
• Field of Study: 60405 Studies on Film, Radio and Television
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119198
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-3-030-61633-5
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61634-2
• Keywords in English: Nazi Germany; Third-Reich cinema; Ufa; collaboration; agency; historiography; cultural history; Second World War
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

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 cover the territories of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and the Soviet Union.

Links

• GA16-13375S, research and development project: Name: Česká filmová kultura a německá okupace: procesy kulturního transferu

Investor: Czech Science Foundation