Hitler's Heroines: Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema is a 2003 book written by Antje Ascheid and published by Temple University Press.[1][2][3]
The book examines the portrayal of women in Nazi Germany by exploring how actresses embodied and challenged the regime's ideals of femininity, motherhood, and German nationalism. In analyzing key films and actresses, Hitler's Heroines highlights the contradictions of restrictive expectations placed on women and the glamorous stardom of many actresses whose roles contributed to national propaganda efforts. Ascheid suggests that, although the Nazi regime officially rejected the cult of stardom, female movie stars were integral to the mass appeal of Nazi ideology and cultural control.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ Winkel, Roel Vande (2005). "Nazi Actresses as trojan horses? 'new' and 'traditional' interpretations of third reich film representations of women1". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 25 (4): 647–654. doi:10.1080/01439680500281751. ISSN 0143-9685.
- ^ Weinstein, Valerie (21 December 2004). "Hitler's Heroines: Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema". Monatshefte: 634–635.
- ^ "Book Review: Filming Women in the Third Reich; Hitler's Heroines: Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema; Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich". German History. 22 (4): 653–656. 2004. doi:10.1177/026635540402200414.
- ^ Horak, Jan-Christopher (Dec 2003). "Antje Ascheid: Hitler's Heroines. Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema". Filmblatt. 8 (23): 59–61 – via ResearchGate.
- ^ Semmens, K. (2004-10-01). "Book Review: Filming Women in the Third Reich; Hitler's Heroines: Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema; Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich". German History. 22 (4): 653–656. doi:10.1177/026635540402200414. ISSN 0266-3554.