Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/2xXW1F Hitler's Heroines Stardom & Womanhood In Nazi Cinema By: Antje Ascheid Publisher: Temple University Press Print ISBN: 9781566399845, 156639984X eText ISBN: 9781592138432, 1592138438 Copyright year: 2003 Format: PDF Available from $ 29.95 USD SKU 9781592138432 German film-goers flocked to see musicals and melodramas during the Nazi era. Although the Nazis seemed to require that every aspect of ordinary life advance the fascist project, even the most popular films depicted characters and desires that deviated from the politically correct ideal. Probing into the contradictory images of womanhood that surfaced in these films, Antje Ascheid shows how Nazi heroines negotiated the gender conflicts that confronted contemporary women.The careers of Kristina Soderbaum, Lilian Harvey, and Zarah Leander speak to the Nazis' need to address and contain the woman question, to redirect female subjectivity and desires to self sacrifice for the common good (i.e., national socialism). Hollywood's new women and glamorous dames were out; the German wife and mother were in. The roles and star personas assigned to these actresses, though intended to entertain the public in a politically conformist way, point to the difficulty of yoking popular culture to ideology. Additional ISBNs 9781566399838, 1566399831
