How One Writes, Makes, Markets a Movie and How an Audience Reads the Movie: Two Biographical Films of Hitler as a Case Study

Author

Nick Chi-Shu J. Yeh, Claremont Graduate UniversityFollow

Date of Award

2012

Degree Type

Open Access Dissertation

Degree Name

Cultural Studies, PhD

Program

School of Arts and Humanities

Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair

Eve Oishi

Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member

Jennifer Merolla

Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member

Lynn Rapaport

Terms of Use & License Information

Terms of Use for work posted in Scholarship@Claremont.

Rights Information

© 2012 Nick (Chi-Shu) J. Yeh

Keywords

audience, film market, Hitler, Nazism

Subject Categories

Communication | Comparative Literature | Film and Media Studies

Abstract

According to John Lukacs, German people's views on Hitler and Nazism once got examined right after the fall the Third Reich in the 1950s but this subject has lost its appeal since then. How do Germans nowadays, specifically those young ones raised in the "New Germany" after the fall of the Berlin Wall, think of Hitler and their country's Nazi legacy? This dissertation is to explore how six young Germans growing up in the new "unified Germany" interpret two films' representations of Hitler and Nazism.

DOI

10.5642/cguetd/36

Recommended Citation

Yeh, Nick Chi-Shu J.. (2012). How One Writes, Makes, Markets a Movie and How an Audience Reads the Movie: Two Biographical Films of Hitler as a Case Study. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 36. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/36. doi: 10.5642/cguetd/36