Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2017
Publication Title
Film History: An International Journal
Abstract
This article reconsiders the first comprehensive history of German film, Oskar Kalbus’s two-volume Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst (On the Rise of German Film Art, 1935) in terms of its contemporary reception in Nazi Germany and in light of a newly surfaced third volume. This is the first article dedicated to a work that scholars have long cited, though rarely without suspicion. The newly surfaced typescript for Der Film im Dritten Reich (Film in the Third Reich, 1937) confirms the author’s National So- cialist sympathies, but at the same time it highlights by contrast the virtues of the two published volumes.
Keywords
film historiography, German film, Third Reich, cigarette albums, antisemitism
Volume
29
Issue
2
First Page
165
Last Page
190
DOI
10.2979/filmhistory.29.2.07
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Rights
Licensed to Smith College and distributed CC-BY under the Smith College Faculty Open Access Policy
Recommended Citation
Westerdale, Joel, "An Accident of Resistance in Nazi Germany: Oskar Kalbus's Three-Volume History of German Film (1935–37)" (2017). German Studies: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/ger_facpubs/1
Comments
Peer reviewed accepted manuscript.