Swastika: Cinema of Oppression by Baxter Phillips 1st ed.

Lorrimer 
1976 
Softcover 
1st Edition 
111 Pages
18 x 25.5cm 

Condition: Very Good 

Detailed study of how the Third Reich used film as propaganda, examines Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, Veit Harlan’s Jud Süß, and other essential works of fascist cinema. A crucial book for those interested in the power of media and the ways regimes shape public perception through spectacle. Also covers the films of other authoritarian regimes as well as the reaction to fascism in cinema. Hundreds of photographs, 8 pages in full colour.