Arminius the Liberator [electronic resource] : myth and ideology / Martin M. Winkler.
Winkler, Martin M., author.
2015
DD123 .W67 2015eb
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Title Arminius the Liberator [electronic resource] : myth and ideology / Martin M. Winkler.
Author Winkler, Martin M., author.
ISBN 9780190252939 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190252915
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 356 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190252915 doi
Call Number DD123 .W67 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 937.07
Summary 'Arminius the Liberator' deals with the modern reception of Arminius. Martin M. Winkler examines the ideological abuse of historical myth in German nationalism and National Socialism and its various international ramifications up until today. Special emphasis is on the representation of Arminius in visual media.
Note 'Arminius the Liberator' deals with the modern reception of Arminius. Martin M. Winkler examines the ideological abuse of historical myth in German nationalism and National Socialism and its various international ramifications up until today. Special emphasis is on the representation of Arminius in visual media.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : history, myth, media
History as myth and ideology
The fate of history in the time of the image
I. FROM HISTORY TO MYTH TO IDEOLOGY. Origins of myth : Arminius in ancient literature and in German scholarship
Backgrounds to twentieth-century ideology
Arminius in National Socialism
II. IDEOLOGICAL VICTORIES : THE DEFEAT OF VARUS ON THE GERMAN SCREEN. Nationalism at a boil : die Hermannschlacht
National Socialism : Romans and Germans in Ewiger Wald
III. THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF IDEOLOGY. Historical myth on screen in the 1960s : with and without ideology
Against ideology : history exorcised
After ideology : history as infotainment
History without ideology : media and spectacle
Arminus in the New World.

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