MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By David Denby, book reviews @ The New Yorker, online now and Sept. 16, 2013 issue
Home page lede: At their worst, the studios accommodated the Nazis; at their best they were utterly confused…
Excerpt:
In recent years, a variety of scholars, including Neal Gabler, J. Hoberman, Jeffrey Shandler, Lester D. Friedman, Steven Carr, and Felicia Herman, have worked on different aspects of this complicated history. But the story has been charged up by the appearance of two new books: “The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler” (Harvard), by Ben Urwand, a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard; and “Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939” (Columbia), by Thomas Doherty, a professor of American studies at Brandeis
Comments
Verrry interressting, as Arte Johnson would have said.
As reluctant as Hollywood was to criticize Germany in the 30s, they more than made up for it in the 50s and 60s. I wonder how Gylssing would have reacted to Sargeant Schultz and Colonel Klink in Hogan's Heroes
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by EmmaZahn on Thu, 09/12/2013 - 8:22pm