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Veit Harlan / Frank Noack.

Veit Harlan (1899-1964) was one of Germany's most controversial and loathed directors. The first English-language biography of the notorious director, Veit Harlan presents an in-depth portrait of the man who is arguably the only Nazi filmmaker with a distinct authorial style and body of work.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Noack, Frank, 1961- (Author)
Other title:Veit Harlan. English.
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2016]
Series:Screen classics.
Subjects:
Harlan, Veit, > 1899-1964.
Motion picture producers and directors > Germany > Biography.
National socialism and motion pictures.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Germany.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Author's note
  • Introduction: Individualist in a totalitarian state
  • Part 1. The father
  • The son
  • Youth culture
  • Lights, camera, action
  • Kunz versus Cohn
  • The interview
  • Telling others how to act
  • Learning the alphabet
  • Prestige
  • Politics
  • The girl in the water
  • Adultery
  • Part 2. The trap
  • The catastrophe of success
  • Blood and soil
  • The German soul
  • Frenzy
  • Opfergang
  • Perseverance
  • Part 3. In the ruins of the reich
  • The trial
  • The second trial
  • Heimatfilm noir
  • Exile
  • Youth culture revisited
  • Exhaustion
  • Epilogue: "Hitler, Harlan, Honecker"
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: Quotes on Harlan.

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