Hitler''s Face - The Biography of an Image

Informationen zum Autor Claudia Schmolders lectures at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She is the author of numerous books in German, including The Eccentric Look: A Discourse on Physiognomy and The Invention of Love: Famous Testimonies from Three Millennia. With Sander L. Gilman, she is the coeditor of The Faces of the Weimar Republic: A Physiognomic Cultural History. Klappentext From his emergence on the German political scene in 1914 and subsequent public infatuation with him, to his fall in 1945 and the growing revulsion as his horrific acts were revealed to the world, Adolf Hitler's visage, Claudia Schmölders argues, was the first political image manufactured for the modern media. Zusammenfassung From his emergence on the German political scene in 1914 and subsequent public infatuation with him, to his fall in 1945 and the growing revulsion as his horrific acts were revealed to the world, Adolf Hitler's visage, Claudia Schmolders argues, was the first political image manufactured for the modern media. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Models 1913-1918 2. Warrants and Projections 1918-1923 3. Iconizations 1923-1929 4. Self-Images 1929-1939 5. Shock Pictures 1939-1945 6. Picturing Horror 1945-1949 Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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• Autori: Claudia Schm Lders, Claudia Schmoelders, Claudia Schmolders, Claudia Schmölders, SCHMOLDERS CLAUDIA
• Con la collaborazione di: Adrian Daub (Traduzione)
• Editore: University of pennsylvania pr
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9780812220810
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2081-0
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: Material Texts; Material Texts
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Storia > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; Deutschland, Fotografie: Porträts & Selbstporträts, Europäische Geschichte, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, Biography / Autobiography