Film professionals in Nazi-occupied Europe 1st ed.
Author
Additional Author(s)
Skopal, Pavel
Winkel, Roel Vande
Publisher
Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021
Language
English
ISBN
9783030616342
Series
Subject(s)
ETHNOLOGY-EUROPE
MOTION PICTURES--EUROPEAN INFLUENCES
Notes
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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.
