Propaganda Documentaries in France - 1940-1944

This is the first volume specifically devoted to non-fiction propaganda film distributed in France during the "Dark Years" of the German Occupation. This book shows how the Nazis pursued an aggressive series of measures designed to monopolize the French market and foster agitation against Americans, Jews, Communists, and others. The author provides a concise overview of Vichy and German film policies and then illustrates how ideological priorities and political negotiations played out in the content of both topical documentaries and weekly newsreels.

About the author

Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit is professor of cinema studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, where he is director of the Institut de recherche sur le cinéma et l'audiovisuel (IRCAV).

Marcelline Block is a lecturer in history at Princeton University. She is the author of World Film Locations: Paris (2011), editor of Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema (2010), and co-editor of French Cinema and the Great War: Remembrance and Representation (2016).

Summary

This is the first volume specifically devoted to non-fiction propaganda film distributed in France during the "Dark Years" of the German Occupation. This book shows how the Nazis pursued an aggressive series of measures designed to monopolize the French market and foster agita...

Product details

• Authors: Bertin-Maghit, Jean Pierre Bertin-Maghit, Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit, Jean-pierre/ Block Bertin-maghit, Marcelline Block
• Assisted by: Marcelline Block (Translation)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781442261013
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-6101-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Film and History; Film and History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV