Our Nazis: Representations of Fascism in Contemporary Literature and Film

Petra Rau

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2013

Our Nazis

Representations of Fascism in Contemporary Literature and Film

Petra Rau

In the series Edinburgh Critical Studies in War and Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748668656

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An analysis of the resurgent cultural fascination with Nazism since 1989

Why has a fascination with fascism re-emerged after the Cold War? What is its cultural function now, in an era of commemoration? Focusing particularly on the British context, this study offers the first analysis of contemporary popular and literary fiction, film, TV and art exhibitions about Nazis and Nazism. Petra Rau brings this material into dialogue with earlier responses to fascism and demonstrates how, paradoxically, Nazism has been both mediated and mythologised to the extent that it now often replaces a critical engagement with actual, violent history.

In 5 thematic chapters on Nazi Noir, Men in Uniform, Vile Bodies, The Good German and Meta-Cinematic Farce, Rau provides close analysis of contemporary novels such as Jason Lutes’ graphic novel series Berlin, historical crime fiction by Philip Kerr and others, Robert Harris’ Fatherland, Ian McEwan’s Black Dogs and Justin Cartwright’s The Song Before It Is Sung; films such as Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards; art installations including Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art, and Fucking Hell by Jake and Dinos Chapman; and Piotr Uklanski’s photo frieze, Untitled (The Nazis).

Key Features:

Broad interdisciplinary approach which includes literature, film, TV and art
Wide coverage of popular forms and High Art
Comparison with earlier material about fascism which reaches back to the 1930s

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Sources of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Series Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: ‘Having Your Nazi Cake and Eating it’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Nazi Noir: Hardboiled Masculinity and Fascist Sensibility from Ambler and Greene to Philip Kerr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
2 The Fascist Corpus in the Age of Holocaust Remembrance: Robert Harris’s Fatherland and Ian McEwan’s Black Dogs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
3 ‘Fascism’ as Excess and Abjection: Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
4 The Good German: The Stauffenberg Plot and its Discontents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
5 ‘Operation Kino’: Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds as Meta-cinematic Farce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: May 20, 2013
ISBN: 9780748668656