Triumph of the Will: A memorial in film
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Article Title | Triumph of the Will: A memorial in film |
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ERA Journal ID | 210554 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Maddock, Daniel |
Journal Title | Historical Encounters |
Journal Citation | 8 (3), pp. 41-54 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | 2021 |
Publisher | University of Newcastle |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISSN | 2203-7543 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.52289/hej8.304 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.hej-hermes.net/8-304 |
Abstract | Despite Hitler’s efforts to transform Berlin into Germania, the capital of the new world he envisioned and which would bear comparison with Ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Rome, there is little in the way of monumental architecture to bear witness to that ambition. Though there is only limited public evidence of Hitler’s architectural hubris present either in stone or steel, the same cannot be said of film. Leni Riefenstahl’s masterpiece Triumph of the Will (1935) (German: Triumph des Willens) is the most famous propaganda film of all time and a staple of university film schools and secondary schools globally. At the time of its creation, celluloid motion picture film was a relatively new technology and the documentary format a nascent art form. Nevertheless, it was lauded almost immediately as a visually stunning imagining of the new regime and its leader. Though the film maker was subsequently reviled, as an art work the film has retained an almost miasmic aura that justifies continued re-assessment of its standing as a monument to the Nazi regime and the horror perpetrated in its name. |
Keywords | Authenticity; Documentary film; German history; Realism; Leni Riefenstahl; Nazi Germany; Propaganda |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 430303. Biography |
360501. Cinema studies | |
430308. European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman) | |
Byline Affiliations | University of Southern Queensland |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q6vqy/triumph-of-the-will-a-memorial-in-film
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