Nazisploitation! The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture

by Magilow, Daniel H.; Bridges, Elizabeth; Vander Lugt, Kristin T.

• ISBN13: 9781441183590
• ISBN10: 1441183590
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-24
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Nazisploitation! examines past intersections of National Socialism and popular cinema and the recent reemergence of this imagery in contemporary visual culture. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, films such as Love Camp 7 and Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS introduced and reinforced the image of Nazis as master paradigms of evil in what film theorists deem the "sleaze" film. More recently, Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, as well as video games such as Call of Duty: World at War, have reinvented this iconography for new audiences. In these works, the violent Nazi becomes the hyperbolic caricature of the "monstrous feminine" or the masculine sadist. Power-hungry scientists seek to clone the Führer, and Nazi zombies rise from the grave.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction: Nazisploitation! The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture	p. 1
Origins, Histories and Genealogies
Cinema beyond Good and Evil? Nazi Exploitation in the Cinema of the 1970s and its Heritage	p. 21
Sexual Deviance and the Naked Body in Cinematic Representations of Nazis	p. 38
Ilsa and Elsa: Nazisploitation, Mainstream Film and Cinematic Transference	p. 55
Reproducing the Fourth Reich: Cloning, Nazisploitation and Revival of the Repressed	p. 72
Utterly without Redeeming Social Value? 'Nazi Science' Beyond Exploitation Cinema	p. 92
Bitches, Whores and Dominatrices
The Third Reich as Bordello and Pigsty: Between Neodecadence and Sexploitation in Tinto Brass's Salon Kitty	p. 115
Revisiting the Cruel Apparatus: Disability, Queerness and Taste in In a Glass Cage	p. 134
Eine Armee Gretchen: Nazisploitation Made in Switzerland	p. 155
Meshes of Power: The Concentration Camp as Pulp or Art House in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter	p. 175
Heroes, Villains and the Undead
I Digital Nazis: Genre, History and the Displacement of Evil in First-Person Shooters	p. 199
Captain America Lives Again and So Do the Nazis: Nazisploitadon in Comics after 9/11	p. 219
A Past that Refuses to Die: Nazi Zombie Film and the Legacy of Occupation	p. 238
Messing Up World War II-Exploitation: The Challenges of Role-Play in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds	p. 258
Of Blitzkriege and Hardcore BDSM: Revisiting Nazi Sexploitation Camps	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 295
Selected Filmography	p. 315
Notes on Contributors	p. 321
Index	p. 325
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