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Robert Withers <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 22 Jul 1993 11:56:36 EDT
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>    I still plan to expose students to the hoary classics (Kracauer,
>    Eisner) as well as more recent books on New German Cinema (e.g., Thomas
>    Elsaesser's, John Sandford's, Timothy Corrigan's), but I was wondering
>    if perhaps there were some crucial essay I was missing.
>
>    I recently picked up a book caled "Film in the Third Reich" that looks
interesting, though I haven't had time to read it yet.  It's by David Hull,
Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 1973.  (Rather dusty!)  Richard Byrne in
"Cinema Journal" wrote of it: "He debunks the myths of several films commonly
cited as support of the Kracauer thesis of pre-Nazi films prefiguring the
development of despotism.  He offers the fullest treatment in English of the
German propaganda film."  Sounds provocative.
 
       The German Embassy resource sounds terrific.  Thanks for the tip.

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