Susan Tegel, formerly head of History at the University of Hertfordshire, was historical advisor to the legal team which planned to press charges against Leni Riefenstahl for Holocaust Denial (2002). She has been a member of the editorial board of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television since 2003.
"It is an important volume for historians, sociologists, and film
scholars alike." Cynthia J. Miller, Emerson College
Title mentioned in article about film by Bas Blokker in Spiegel,
March 2008.
"Tegel's work offers a comprehensive, accesible introduction to the
cinema of the Third Reich through the lens of antisemitism"-
American Historical Review, February 2009
Title mentioned in Jewish Chronicle, 20 May 2008
"Holocaust denier Leni Reifenstahl, late German filmmaker, was
really in for it from UK history professor Susan Tegel, then with
University of Hertfordshire, now on the historical Journal of Film,
Radio, and Television editorial board. Currently she writes the
August 2007 Hembelton Continuum $34.95 illustrated hardcover, Nazis
and the Cinema, focusing again on such works as Reifenstahl's
infamous paean to Hitler, "The Triumph of the Will," and drawing on
a good deal of material first appearing in the Journal, written by
herself and other scholars. Black and white archival photos
illustrate. Working within the largest film industry outside
Hollywood at the time, German moviemakers and their anti-Semitic,
pro-Nazi films, newsreels and Goebbels-controlled propaganda are
examined during the 1933-1945 span of the Third Reich." -Today's
Books Todays Books puts Nazis and the Cinema title on "The
A-List"
"Historicallyinsightful into what was the largest film industry
outside of Hollywoodbetween the two world wars, "Nazis and
theCinema" is worth looking into for film and history buffs into
what Germanypresented themselves at the time as a cautionary
measure, plus an irony on howfilm propaganda hasn't changes much
since." -"Outreach Connection"
"Tegel's judicious overview is the only English-language account to
build on recent German micro-histories" - The London Review of
Books
"Susan's book is a fascinating look at the cinema produce of the
Nazis... The author is an authority on her subject... an excellent
book" The Hornsey Magazine, December 2007
"Historically insightful into what was the largest film industry
outside of Hollywood between the two world wars, "Nazis and the
Cinema" is worth looking into for film and history buffs into what
Germany presented themselves at the time as a cautionary measure,
plus an irony on how film propaganda hasn't changes much since."
-"Outreach Connection"
"Susan Tegel's book is a brilliant pulling-together of a lot of
research and thinking about film in the Nazi era" - Taylor Downing
in History Today, 2008
"Susan Tegel, the historian who advised the legal team that was
preparing to sue Leni Riefenstahl for Holocaust denial, is the
latest scholar to analyze fully the role played by movies in the
Third Reich. It's a testament to the field's richness that her
Nazis and the Cinema covers territory left largely unexplored in
the two major books on the subject, Linda Schulte-Sasse's
Entertaining the Third Reich, and Eric Rentschler's Ministry of
Illusion (both published in 1996)...[Tegel] emphasize[s], in a way
that they do not, the manner in which Jews were represented on the
German screen." Film Comment (Jan/Feb 2008 issue)--Sanford
Lakoff
"Susan Tegel deserves applause for achieving exactly what she sets
out to accomplish: exploring the intersection of art and politics
as well as the efficacy of Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine ...
Tegel's jargon-free prose makes this book a palatable choice for an
upper-division course ... Posing questions rather than asserting
overambitious claims, Nazis and the Cinema provides its readers
with substantial cerebral nourishment" - German Studies
Review--Sanford Lakoff
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