Description: A brilliant line-up of international contributors examine the implications of the portrayals of Nazis in low-brow culture and that culture's re-emergence today.
Brief description: Daniel H. Magilow is Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. He is the author of The Photography of Crisis: The Photo Essays of Weimar Germany (2012) and In Her Father's Eyes: A Childhood Extinguished by the Holocaust (2008) and the co-editor, along with Elizabeth Bridges and Kristin T. Vander Lugt, of Nazisploitation! The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Culture and Cinema (2012).
Review Quotes: Nazis have occupied global popular culture for some seventy years now, not only as the villains of World War II and perennial Oscar bait for Hollywood, but also as the site of perverse psychosexual fixations both high and low. In a series of provocative essays, Nazisploitation! examines the oddly and even alarmingly enduring presence of the Nazi across a variety of media, opening and important, if at times difficult, dialogue about this continuing fascination with the iconography of the Third Reich. --Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern University
Historical Jounal of Film, Radio and Television