Adolf Hitler in american culture. National identity and the totalitarian Other

8vo, br. e4d. 652pp. The Crisis of the 1930s -- The Image of Germany Prior to 1933 -- Hitler and Nazism During the War -- The Early Journalistic Response -- The Early Pop-Cultural Response to Hitler and Nazism -- Hitler and Nazism in Film -- Why We Fight and Once Upon a Honeymoon: -- The Geopolitical Imagination -- Hitler in Wartime Cinema -- Hitler Comedies and the Theme of Impersonation -- The New World Order -- The Cultural Memory of World War II -- Hitler during the Early Cold War -- The Last Days of Hitler -- The Image of Hitler and Nazism in the 1950s -- The "Return" of Hitler and the Sadistic Nazi -- Hitler and Nazism in the Postwar Popul‰r Culture -- Adolf Hitler as a Pop-Cultural Trope: The Symbol of Evil -- The Symbol ofEvil in the 1950s and Early 1960s -- Playful Approaches to the Symbol of Evil: Hitler Comedies Hitler Wave and Fascinating Fascism -- Identity Crisis and the Hitler Wave -- Fascinating Fascism -- Running Dog -- Other Crisis Symptoms: The Dirty War Film -- Holocaust -- Trauma and Power -- The Sexualized Symbol of Evil -- Nazi Thrillers -- The Passage -- Star Wars -- Hitler in the 1980s -- The Big Red One -- The Winds of War and War and Remembrance -- Cultural Memory after the Cold War -- The Icon of Power -- White Noise -- The Icon of Power in Documentaries -- Hitler: The Rise of Evil -- Hitler As a Pop-Icon -- The Pop-Icon on TV and in Film -- Inglourious Basterds. ISBN 978350677719