7 The Iconology of the Sexy Nazi Woman: Marlene Dietrich as Political Palimpsest

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. I The Democratic Family
6. 1 Nazi Nationalist Melodrama: Science, Myth, and Paternal Authority in Die Goldene Stadt 23
7. 2 American Nationalist Melodrama: Tales of Hitler’s Children 42
8. 3 ‘‘Family Values’’ and Naziana in Contemporary Right-Wing Media 71
9. II The Democratic Psyche
10. 4 Nazism, Psychology, and the Making of Democratic Subjects 109
11. 5 The American Nazi: Cold War Social Problem Films and National Psychobiography 138
12. 6 Skinheads, Militiamen, and the Legacies of Failed Masculinity 176
13. III Democratic Sex
14. 7 The Iconology of the Sexy Nazi Woman: Marlene Dietrich as Political Palimpsest 213
15. 8 Sexualized Nazis and Contemporary Popular Political Culture 248
16. Epilogue 287
17. Notes 293
18. Bibliography 341
19. Index 359