Cinema and the Swastika

Cinema and the Swastika is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically, politically and culturally – the film industries of 20 countries and regions either occupied by, friendly with or neutral towards Nazi Germany. With contributions from internationally acclaimed specialists, the territory covered includes Western and Central Europe, Italy, Japan, Scandinavia, Spain, South Americas and the USA. This book also features assessments of the International Film Chamber, through which the Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, tried to lead the ‘Film Europe’ movement, and of Hispano Film, through which German cinema tried to conquer Spanish markets.

ROEL VANDE WINKEL is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belgian Research Foundation - Flanders, member of the Working Group Film & TV Studies (Ghent University) and Visiting Professor at the Sint Lukas Hogeschool Brussel. He has published on various topics relating to Belgian and German film and media history. He is the European book review editor for the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television and preparing the book publication of his PhD thesis on Nazi newsreels in occupied Europe, 1939-1945.

DAVID WELCH is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda and War at the University of Kent, UK. His books include Modern European History, 1871-2000 (1999), Germany, Propaganda and Total War 1914-18 (2000), Hitler: Profile of a Dictator (2001), The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda (2002) and Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-45 (2001, 2006). He is co-author of Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to Present (2003) and is the general editor of Routledge's Sources in History series.

Introduction * Europe's New Hollywood? The German Film Industry Under Nazi Rule, 1933-1945--D.Welch & R.Vande Winkel * 'European Cinema for Europe!' The International Film Chamber, 1935-42--B.G.Martin * German Attempts to Penetrate the Spanish-speaking Film Markets, 1936-1942--L.Jarvinen & F.Peredo-Castro * Between Resistance and Collaboration: Austrian Cinema and Nazism Before and During the Annexation, 1933-45--R.von Dassanowsky * German Influence on Belgian Cinema, 1933-45: from Low-Profile Presence to Downright Colonisation--R.Vande Winkel * Nazi Film Politics in Brazil, 1933-42--L.Nazario * The Influence of German Cinema on Newly Established Croatian Cinematography, 1941-45--D.Rafaelic * A Dangerous Neighbourhood: German Cinema in the Czechoslovak Region, 1933-45--I.Klimes * The Attempted Nazification of French Cinema, 1934-44--B.Bowles * Cinema Goes to War: the German Film Policy in Greece during the Occupation, 1941-44; E.Sifaki * 'Competitor or Compatriot? Hungarian Film in the Shadow of the Swastika', 1933-44--D.S.Frey * A War Within the War: Italy, Film, Propaganda and the Quest for Cultural Hegemony in Europe (1933-43)--A.A.Kallis * Celluloid Competition: German-Japanese Film Relations, 1929-45--J.Hansen * From Dawn to Young Eagles : The (Failed) Attempt of Germanisation and Nazification of Luxembourg Through Cinema, 1933-1944--P.Lesch * Dutch-German Film Relations Under German Pressure and Nazi Occupation, 1933-45--I.Schiweck * From Will to Reality - Norwegian Film During the Nazi Occupation, 1940-45--B.Sorenssen * Brown-Red Shadows: The Influence of Third Reich and Soviet Cinema on Afrikaans Film--K.Tomaselli & M.Eckardt * Film and Politics in South-East Europe: Germany as 'leading cultural nation'--T.Kirk * German Films on the Spanish Market Before, During and After the Civil War--M.A. Paz & J.Montero * Swedish Film and Germany, 1933-45--R.Wright * Film Propaganda and the Balance between Neutrality and Alignment: Nazi Films in Switzerland, 1933-45--G.Haver * 'A thin stream issuing through closed lock gates': German Cinema and the United Kingdom, 1933-45--J.Fox * German Films in America, 1933-45: Public Diplomacy and an Uncoordinated Information Campaign--D.Culbert * Select bibliography