Assignments

Readings on Good Morning Mr. Hitler, and the Question of Building Legitimacy by the Use of Propaganda through Films:

• Baird, Jay W., "From Berlin to Neubabelsberg: Nazi Film Propaganda and Hitler Youth Quex," Journal of Contemporary History, 18/3 (July 1983), pp.495-515.
• Drexler, Peter, "The German Courtroom Film during the Nazi Period: Ideology, Aesthetics, Historical Context," Journal of Law and Society, 28/1 (March 2001), pp.64-78.
• Goggin, Mary-Margaret, "'Decent' vs. 'Degenerate' Art: The National Socialist Case," Art Journal, 50/4 (Winter 1991), pp.84-92.
• Jelavich, Peter, "National Socialism, Art and Power in the 1930s," Past & Present, No.164 (August 1999), pp.244-265.
• Kasher, Steven, "The Art of Hitler," October, 59 (Winter 1992), pp.48-85.
• Koepnick, Lutz, "Fascist Aesthetics Revisted," Modernism/Modernity, 651-73. (January 1999), pp.
• Michaud, Eric, "National Socialist Architecture as an Acceleration of Time," Critical Inquiry, 19/2 (Winter 1993), pp.220-233.
• Rentschler, Eric, "The Testament of Dr. Goebbels," Film History, 8 (1996), pp.316-326.
• Spector, Scott, "Was the Third Reich Movie-Made? Interdisciplinarity and the Reframing of 'Ideology'," The American Historical Review, 106/2 (April 2001), pp.460-484.
• Taylor, Simon, "Symbol and Ritual under National Socialism," The British Journal of Sociology, 32/4 (December 1981), pp.504-520.
• Welch, David, "Nazi Propaganda and the Volksgemeinschaft: Constructing a People's Community," Journal of Contemporary History, 39/2 (April 2004), pp.213-238.
• Welch, David, The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda, 2nd ed. (London and New York: Routledge, 2002)
• Werner, Alfred, "Hitler's Kampf against Modern Art: A Retrospect," The Antioch Review, 26/1 (Spring 1966), pp.56-67.