Our Nazis

Representations of Fascism in Contemporary Literature and Film (livre en anglais)

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de Petra Rau

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Sociologie

Mots Clés

sociologie, politique, idéologie nazie

Année d'édition

2013

Editeur

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

Edinburgh Critical Studies in War and Culture

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Relié • 256 pages
15,5 x 23,5 cm

ISBN

978-0-7486-6864-9

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Description de l'ouvrage :
An analysis of the resurgent cultural fascination with Nazism since 1989

Why has a fascination with fascism re-emerged after the Cold War? What is its cultural function now, in an era of commemoration? Focusing particularly on the British context, this study offers the first analysis of contemporary popular and literary fiction, film, TV and art exhibitions about Nazis and Nazism. Petra Rau brings this material into dialogue with earlier responses to fascism and demonstrates how, paradoxically, Nazism has been both mediated and mythologised to the extent that it now often replaces a critical engagement with actual, violent history.

In 5 thematic chapters on Nazi Noir, Men in Uniform, Vile Bodies, The Good German and Meta-Cinematic Farce, Rau provides close analysis of contemporary novels such as Jason Lutes’ graphic novel series Berlin, historical crime fiction by Philip Kerr and others, Robert Harris’ Fatherland, Ian McEwan’s Black Dogs and Justin Cartwright’s The Song Before It Is Sung; films such as Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards; art installations including Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art, and Fucking Hell by Jake and Dinos Chapman; and Piotr Uklanski’s photo frieze, Untitled (The Nazis).
Key Features:
• Broad interdisciplinary approach which includes literature, film, TV and art
• Wide coverage of popular forms and High Art
• Comparison with earlier material about fascism which reaches back to the 1930s

À propos de l'auteur :
Petra Rau is Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia.

Revue de Presse :
This energetically written book will certainly make an important and timely contribution to current debates on the legacy of the Second World War.– Dr Victoria Stewart, University of Leicester

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