This text looks at the star system under the Third Reich. Following the experiments of Weimar, much of cinema after 1933 became part of a wider Nazi backlash against modernism in all its forms. This study contributes to contemporary debates concerning the historical study of film spectatorship.
Erica Carter is Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Warwick and author of How German is She?: Postwar West German Reconstruction and the Consuming Woman (1997).
Stars as objects of ambivalence.- Film as art a cinema of Personlichkeit.- The new film art reception.- Film stars and the volkisch sublime Emil Jannings' 'Little Dreamer'.- Marlene Dietrich German beauty or Hollywood spectacle?.- Femininity and the sublime Zarah Leander.- 'race' and star image Ferdinand Marian.
Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz Göktürk, Claudia Sandberg, UK) Bergfelder, Tim (University of Southampton, UK) Carter, Erica (King's College London, USA) Gokturk, Deniz (University of California, Berkeley, Australia) Sandberg, Claudia (University of Melbourne