The first section of this thesis describes the development of nationally-minded revolutionary sentiment in Vormärz Germany. Using British and American diplomatic envoy reports from the German states, the paper clarifies and enunciates the development of nationalist revolutionary feeling in Germany from the perspective of contemporary observers. It argues that the desire for national revolution spread over time among ever widening groups of people, creating conditions for that sentiment to be expressed intermittently through acts of disobedience or violence.
<p>The second section analyzes four German films about Frederick II released between 1933 and 1945. The paper treats the films as part of a continuous historiographical, literary, and filmic discourse about Frederick, and compares their aesthetic and narrative strategies and how these affected the films effectiveness as propaganda. The papers most significant argument is that certain films incorporated aesthetic strategies from Weimar cinema in order to emphasize propagandistic content.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VANDERBILT/oai:VANDERBILTETD:etd-07182011-113459 |
| Date | 12 October 2015 |
| Creators | Gibson, Robert Michael |
| Contributors | Helmut Walser Smith, Michael Bess |
| Publisher | VANDERBILT |
| Source Sets | Vanderbilt University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07182011-113459/ |
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