Word: riefenstahlã
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...Cinema: Fantasy Production in the Third Reich,” taught by the world’s reigning authority on the subject, German department chair Eric Rentschler. Rentschy, as we affectionately call him, is a fantastic professor, and this is an eye-opening course. Weekly screenings range from Leni Riefenstahl??s visually stunning propaganda pictures, “Triumph of the Will” and “Olympia” (required texts for anyone seeking to understand film history), to hilarious German romantic comedies from the 1930s (unfortunately, turns out they’re totally pro-Nazi...
Rebirth of a Nation, Miller explained, is the first installment of a trilogy in which he seeks to show that the nation-state is, at least in part, a cinematic creation. He has yet to begin work on the second installment, which will grapple with Leni Riefenstahl??s 1934 Nazi propaganda picture Triumph of the Will. The third part, he said, will most likely remix French filmmaker Abel Gance’s intensely patriotic Napoleon...
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