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Double and Duplicitous: Nazi Women in Postwar Hollywood Films, 1945-1961

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This article focuses on a few Berlin-Filme (A Foreign Affair, The Big Lift, Night People, and One, Two, Three) which were shot between the end of World War II (1945) and the building of the Berlin Wall (1961). At the time, the German capital was endowed with a definite symbolism. It was both a bombed-out city, haunted by the ghosts of Nazism and the Cold War’s mirror, the theatrum belli of most of its indirect conflicts (e.g., the Berlin blockade, the creation of the GDR and FRG). The world was then facing a paradigm shift. This article argues that in this shift from the reeducation of German civilians to the definition of a new enemy (Communism), the character of the Nazi woman has a role to play for the American audience. Thanks to her duality, duplicity, and impostures, she becomes a means to, as Rainer Rother argues, “re-orientat[e] the enemy image.” The purpose behind this reorientation is “to prepare Americans for a confrontation with a new enemy”: Communism.
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hal-04311237 , version 1 (28-11-2023)

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Manon Kuffer. Double and Duplicitous: Nazi Women in Postwar Hollywood Films, 1945-1961. TIES - Revue de littérature, textes, images et sons, 2023, N°8 (2023) - Numéro spécial "Troublantes Usurpations", http://revueties.org/document/1249-double-and-duplicitous-nazi-women-in-postwar-hollywood-films-1945-1961. ⟨hal-04311237⟩
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