GRMN 2301 - Exam 2 questions and answers graded A+

GRMN 2301 - Exam 2 Nazi art views on culture - correct answer - women play a very small role or stereotypical role - only the best will be able to play sports because they have to do it well - the art will be very boring because its extremely traditional Ministry and Public Enlightenment and Propaganda is responsible for all activites: - correct answer - admin - propaganda - radio - newspapers - film - theater, music, art - protection about lies in Germany + abroad Minister of the ministry is - correct answer Joesph Goebbels Nazi film production - correct answer - 1094 feature films - of these 941 were genre films - 523 were comedies and musicals Nazi cinema evening program - correct answer - newsreel - live comedy act - cartoon - cultural film - feature film Rentschler's 5 premises: - correct answer 1. The cinema of the third reich must be seen in the context of a totalitarian state's attempt to remake German culture and politics 2. Nazi films were meant to entertain, "to move the hearts and minds of masses while seeming to have little to do with politics" 3. Orchestra principle: cinema plays a part in the overall program of creating a new culture 4. Nazi culture was a popular culture, not just 'official art' 5. Nazi films aimed to be aesthically pleasing and drew on traditional models of filmmaking, including American cinema conventions Triumph of the Will - correct answer - filmed at the 1934 Nuremburg Party congress - director = Leni Rienfenstahl () - length 120 min - made w a team of 120 analysis of Triumph of the Will - correct answer - the men are from all different places - working for the good of the race - showing their hands showed physical labor - not a lot of indiviudilization - ritualistic aspect La Habanara - correct answer - Zarah Leander = swedish actress - there are continoutites from Hollywood movie stars to Nazi moviestars - part of an evening movie program at the cinema - part of an overall transformation of German society Ernst Jünger () - correct answer - Storm of Steel (1920) - 1923 = leaves military - 1920s = studies zoology, philosophy; active writer for nationalist + right wing press "The Worker" by Ernst Jünger (1932) - correct answer - proposes new race/species of the "worker"