Course description
As thinking beings we often consider the limits of human potential and wonder what the worst might be. The Nazis obsess us because they were masters of extremity who brought to the world unprecedented violence and destruction. They were also masters of propaganda who engineered sophisticated techniques of mass manipulation. Throughout their endeavors cinema and modern media assumed a seminal role. Why, this course asks, were films so essential to the Hitler regime and so captivating to German audiences of the Third Reich? And what explains the continuing allure, to this very day, of what Susan Sontag once spoke of as "fascinating fascism"? For complete and current details about this Harvard Extension course, see the description in the DCE Course Search.
