Cinema and the Swastika The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema

This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically, politically and culturally - the film industries of 20 countries and regions either occupied by, friendly with or neutral towards Nazi Germany.

ROEL VANDE WINKEL is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belgian Research Foundation - Flanders, member of the Working Group Film & TV Studies (Ghent University) and Visiting Professor at the Sint Lukas Hogeschool Brussel. He has published on various topics relating to Belgian and German film and media history. He is the European book review editor for the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television and preparing the book publication of his PhD thesis on Nazi newsreels in occupied Europe, 1939-1945.

DAVID WELCH is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda and War at the University of Kent, UK. His books include Modern European History, 1871-2000 (1999), Germany, Propaganda and Total War 1914-18 (2000), Hitler: Profile of a Dictator (2001), The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda (2002) and Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-45 (2001, 2006). He is co-author of Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to Present (2003) and is the general editor of Routledge's Sources in History series.

Introduction
Europe's New Hollywood? The German Film Industry Under Nazi Rule, 1933-1945--D.Welch&R.Vande Winkel
'European Cinema for Europe!' The International Film Chamber, 1935-42--B.G.Martin
German Attempts to Penetrate the Spanish-speaking Film Markets, 1936-1942--L.Jarvinen&F.Peredo-Castro
Between Resistance and Collaboration: Austrian Cinema and Nazism Before and During the Annexation, 1933-45--R.von Dassanowsky
German Influence on Belgian Cinema, 1933-45: from Low-Profile Presence to Downright Colonisation--R.Vande Winkel
Nazi Film Politics in Brazil, 1933-42--L.Nazario
The Influence of German Cinema on Newly Established Croatian Cinematography, 1941-45--D.Rafaelic
A Dangerous Neighbourhood: German Cinema in the Czechoslovak Region, 1933-45--I.Klimes
The Attempted Nazification of French Cinema, 1934-44--B.Bowles
Cinema Goes to War: the German Film Policy in Greece during the Occupation, 1941-44; E.Sifaki
'Competitor or Compatriot? Hungarian Film in the Shadow of the Swastika', 1933-44--D.S.Frey
A War Within the War: Italy, Film, Propaganda and the Quest for Cultural Hegemony in Europe (1933-43)--A.A.Kallis
Celluloid Competition: German-Japanese Film Relations, 1929-45--J.Hansen
From Dawn to Young Eagles : The (Failed) Attempt of Germanisation and Nazification of Luxembourg Through Cinema, 1933-1944--P.Lesch
Dutch-German Film Relations Under German Pressure and Nazi Occupation, 1933-45--I.Schiweck
From Will to Reality - Norwegian Film During the Nazi Occupation, 1940-45--B.Sorenssen
Brown-Red Shadows: The Influence of Third Reich and Soviet Cinema on Afrikaans Film--K.Tomaselli&M.Eckardt
Film and Politics in South-East Europe: Germany as 'leading cultural nation'--T.Kirk
German Films on the Spanish Market Before, During and After the Civil War--M.A. Paz&J.Montero
Swedish Film and Germany, 1933-45--R.Wright
Film Propaganda and the Balance between Neutrality and Alignment: Nazi Films in Switzerland, 1933-45--G.Haver
'A thin stream issuing through closed lock gates': German Cinema and the United Kingdom, 1933-45--J.Fox
German Films in America, 1933-45: Public Diplomacy and an Uncoordinated Information Campaign--D.Culbert
Select bibliography