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Hitler's Hollywood

Kracauer wrote about the film, "A clear criticism of earlier,crass and exaggerated...

Kracauer wrote about the film, "A clear criticism of earlier,
crass and exaggerated attempts to please the new rulers

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Kracauer wrote about the film,
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"A clear criticism of earlier, crass and exaggerated attempts
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to please the new rulers.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
41
Timestamp in Movie
00:19:37
Uploaded
Jul 08, 2025
Genres
documentary, history
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.
The communists are portrayed not as opponents but as comrades led astray. - Hitler's Hollywood 00:06
The communists are portrayed not as opponents but as comrade...
At the end, the ghostly columns of SA soldiers marching - Hitler's Hollywood 00:11
At the end, the ghostly columns of SA soldiers marching
The politicisation of the aesthetic - Hitler's Hollywood 00:06
The politicisation of the aesthetic
Her documentary of the Nuremberg Rally, - Hitler's Hollywood 00:10
Her documentary of the Nuremberg Rally,
Skilful choreography of attention, initially as a pop concert. - Hitler's Hollywood 00:05
Skilful choreography of attention, initially as a pop concer...
Hitler is the star of a politics that's become a mise-en-sceéne. - Hitler's Hollywood 00:04
Hitler is the star of a politics that's become a mise-e...
Shown only from behind, his effect is seen in the faces of his fans. - Hitler's Hollywood 00:06
Shown only from behind, his effect is seen in the faces of h...
Models of Fascism as if sculpted by Amo Breker - Hitler's Hollywood 00:20
Models of Fascism as if sculpted by Amo Breker
Which represents all Germany. - Hitler's Hollywood 00:04
Which represents all Germany.
And we'd now like you German boys - Hitler's Hollywood 00:15
And we'd now like you German boys
We want to be one nation - Hitler's Hollywood 00:10
We want to be one nation
Dissolving the individual into geometric conformity. - Hitler's Hollywood 00:05
Dissolving the individual into geometric conformity.
Musical images. Counterpoints, rhythms. - Hitler's Hollywood 00:06
Musical images. Counterpoints, rhythms.
No regime has ever celebrated itself with such pomp. - Hitler's Hollywood 00:04
No regime has ever celebrated itself with such pomp.
Theatrical spectacle. Ceremony. Ritual. - Hitler's Hollywood 00:05
Theatrical spectacle. Ceremony. Ritual.
And what Kracauer had described years before: the ornament of the masses. - Hitler's Hollywood 00:05
And what Kracauer had described years before: the ornament o...
Like the revue films that followed, Riefenstahl showed order, - Hitler's Hollywood 00:09
Like the revue films that followed, Riefenstahl showed order...
In "Triumph of the Will" the image is no longer simply the record of reality. - Hitler's Hollywood 00:05
In "Triumph of the Will" the image is no longer si...
Reality has been constructed to serve the image.” - Hitler's Hollywood 00:11
Reality has been constructed to serve the image.”
The order of a mobilised human block, - Hitler's Hollywood 00:06
The order of a mobilised human block,