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" Monsters in the mirror : "
Sara Buttsworth and Maartje Abbenhuis, editors.
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1044262
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b798632
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Monsters in the mirror : : representations of Nazism in post-war popular culture /\ Sara Buttsworth and Maartje Abbenhuis, editors.
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :: Praeger,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (xl, 282 pages) :: illustrations
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0313382174
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0313382166
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9780313382161
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Contents; Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Mundanity of Evil: Everyday Nazism in Post-War Popular Culture; CHAPTER 1 The "What Ifs?" of Nazism: Recent Alternate Histories of the Third Reich; CHAPTER 2 Hitler as Our Devil?: Nazi Germany in Mainstream Media; CHAPTER 3 From Satan to Hitler: Theological and Historical Evil in C.S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, and J.K. Rowling; CHAPTER 4 Hitler Is Fun: Sixty Years of Nazism in Humorous Comics; CHAPTER 5 Holocaust Pornography: Profaning the Sacred in Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS.
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CHAPTER 6 Wonder Woman against the Nazis: Gendering Villainy in DC ComicsCHAPTER 7 Conspirator or Collaborator? Nazi Arab Villainy in Popular Fiction; CHAPTER 8 "Evil's Spreading, Sir -- and It's Not Just Over There!": Nazism in Buffy and Angel; CHAPTER 9 "Keep Feeling Fasci/nation": Neofolk and the Search for Europe; CHAPTER 10 Where Does Evil Sit in the Classroom? Problematizing Teaching about Hitler, Nasty Nazis, and the Holocaust; CHAPTER 11 From Hagiography to Iconoclasm: The Nazi Magazine Signal and Its Mediations; Contributors; Index.
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From Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator to the depiction of Nazis in the Raiders of the Lost Ark to other various literature, comic books, video games, television programs, and pop music, Nazism has maintained a constant presence in popular culture after World War II. Why are representations of NazismÑwhich are often used to depict the ultimate expression of human evilÑso entrenched in our culture?
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National socialism in popular culture.
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Massenkultur
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Massenkultur.
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National socialism in popular culture.
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Nationalsozialismus
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Nationalsozialismus.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Fascism Totalitarianism.
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Rezeption.
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320.53/3
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JC481.M555 2010eb
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Abbenhuis, Maartje M.
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Buttsworth, Sara.
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