Hitler's Heroines: Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema (Culture and the Moving Image)

290 Pages·2003·22.02 MB·English

by  Antje Ascheid

Hitler's Heroines
Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema

Hitler's
Heroines
Stardom and Womanhood
in Nazi Cinema
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ANTJE ASCHEID
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
\ Philadelphia
Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122
Copyright © 2003 by Temple University
All rights reserved
Published 2003
Printed in the United States of America
@Thepaperused in this publication meets the requirements of the
American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence
of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ascheid, Antje, 1964-
Hitler's heroines: stardom and womanhood in Nazi cinema /
Antje Ascheid.
p. em. - (Culture and the moving image)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56639-983-1 (cloth: aile paper) - ISBN 1-56639-984-X
(pbk. : aile paper)
1. National socialism and motion pictures. 2. Women in motion
pictures. 3. Motion pictures-Germany-History. 4. SOderbaum,
Kristina. 5. Harvey, Lilian, 1907-1968. 6. Leander, Zarah, 1907-
I. Title. II. Series.
PNl995.9.N36 A83 2002
791.43'658---dc21 2002071460
Fur meine Eltern
Gisela und Eberhard Ascheid

Contents
Preface ix
INTRODUCTION 1
1 NAZI CULTURE? NATIONAL SOCIALISM, STARDOM,
AND FEMALE REPRESENTATION 11
2 KRISTINA SODERBAUM: THE MYTH OF NATURALNESS,
SACRIFICE, AND THE "REICH'S WATER CORPSE" 42
3 LILIAN HARVEY: INTERNATIONAL STARDOM,
GERMAN COMEDY, AND THE "DREAM COUPLE" 98
4 DIV A, MOTHER, MARTYR: THE MANY FACES
OF ZARAH LEANDER 155
5 CONCLUSION 213
Notes 221
Bibliography 257
Index 269
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