Nazisploitation! - by Daniel H Magilow & Elizabeth Bridges & Kristin T Vander Lugt (Paperback)
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- Nazisploitation!
- About the Author: Elizabeth Bridges is assistant professor of German at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 336 Pages
- Performing Arts, Film
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About the Book
>A brilliant line-up of international contributors examine the implications of the portrayals of Nazis in low-brow culture and that culture's re-emergence todayBook Synopsis
Nazisploitation! examines past intersections of National Socialism and popular cinema and the recent reemergence of this imagery in contemporary visual culture. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, films such as Love Camp 7 and Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS introduced and reinforced the image of Nazis as master paradigms of evil in what film theorists deem the 'sleaze' film. More recently, Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, as well as video games such as Call of Duty: World at War, have reinvented this iconography for new audiences. In these works, the violent Nazi becomes the hyperbolic caricature of the "monstrous feminine" or the masculine sadist. Power-hungry scientists seek to clone the Führer, and Nazi zombies rise from the grave.
The history, aesthetic strategies, and political implications of such translations of National Socialism into the realm of commercial, low brow, and 'sleaze' visual culture are the focus of this book. The contributors examine when and why the Nazisploitation genre emerged as it did, how it establishes and violates taboos, and why this iconography resonates with contemporary audiences.About the Author
Elizabeth Bridges is assistant professor of German at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
Kristin Vander Lugt is Adjunct Instructor of German, George Mason University.