"Mind over matter: Hitler and Riefenstahl during the making of Triumph of the Will. Despite the grandiloquence of scenes from the film, such as the mass banners march-past, it is arguable that the whole adds up to less than the parts."
Friday, March 2, 2012
Riefenstahl and Hitler
Look at this gem I found while finishing my bibliography:
"Mind over matter: Hitler and Riefenstahl during the making of Triumph of the Will. Despite the grandiloquence of scenes from the film, such as the mass banners march-past, it is arguable that the whole adds up to less than the parts."
"Mind over matter: Hitler and Riefenstahl during the making of Triumph of the Will. Despite the grandiloquence of scenes from the film, such as the mass banners march-past, it is arguable that the whole adds up to less than the parts."
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Did the author go into why he/she thought so? I'm curious because everything we've studied so far has praised Triumph of the Will as an awe-inspiring sequence of shots and ground-breaking techniques, etc. Why is the whole less than the parts?
ReplyDeleteThe article in particular that this came from was much more critical of it. The author thought that the movie was purely a work of political propaganda designed to disorient its viewers and convince them to accept fascism and does not deserve to be called a work of art.
DeleteWinston, Brian. "Triumph Of The Will (Cover Story)." History Today 47.1 (1997): 24. Humanities International Complete.