Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Mass Spectacle, History, Cinema: Embodiments of Social Fantasy
Part I. Two Sides of a Coin: The "Jew" and the King as Social Fantasies
Chapter 2. Courtier, Vampire, or Vermin? Jew Suss's Contradictory Effort to Render the "Jew" Other
Chapter 3. Frederick, the Movie; or, The Return of the King's Body: Fridericus and The Great King
Chapter 4. Building the Body Armor: Hans Steinhoff's The Old and the Young King
Part II. Aestheticized Genius
Chapter 5. Duel over the Son: Herbert Maisch's Friedrick Schiller - Triumph of a Genius
Chapter 6. Anomaly or "Facist Delusion of Female Autonomy"? Pabst's Neuberin Film Komodianten
Chapter 7. Tribulations of a Genius: Traugott Muller's Friedemann Bach
Part III. Beyond the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 8. Vicious Circulation: Money and Foreignness in Nazi Film
Movies about Money: Hans Zerlett's Robert and Bertram and Karl Hartl's Gold
Foreign Contamination: Hitler Youth Quex, Hans Westmar, S.A. Man Brand, For Human Rights, and Pour le Merite
Chapter 9. Nazism and Machines
Industry: Veit Harlan's The Ruler and Gerhard Lamprecht's Diesel
Radio and the Homefront: Eduard von Borsody's Request Concert and Rolf Hansen's The Great Love
Chapter 10. Of Lies and Life: Munchhausen's Narrative Arabesque
Select Bibliography
Filmography
Index