Víctimas y verdugos: la representación de Alemania en el cine clásico de Hollywood, 1942-1954

Alberto Lena Ordoñez

doi:10.63700/635

Issue 27

Vanishing Points

Victims and Executioners: the Representation of Germany in Classical Hollywood Cinema, 1942-1954

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Alberto Lena Ordoñez

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Alberto Lena Ordoñez
Universidad Isabel I
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.63700/635

Published 2019-01-31

Keywords

Cinematic Adaptation,
Germany,
Classical Hollywood Cinema,
Cold War,
The Other,
Melodrama,
Second World War

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Lena Ordoñez, A. (2019). Victims and Executioners: the Representation of Germany in Classical Hollywood Cinema, 1942-1954. L’Atalante. Journal of Film Studies, (27), 201–214. https://doi.org/10.63700/635

Abstract

Based an analysis of the most representative films of the 1940s (such as Casablanca, Gilda, Notorious and The Search), this article analyses how the representation of Germany in that decade changed the melodramatic content of classical Hollywood cinema with depictions of Germans as corrupt yet civilised, but also as victims of a pernicious political system. Moreover, this research explores how this cinematic representation of Germany transformed the ideological construction of the war enemy that had previously been applied to Native Americans and the Japanese.

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