Estetica e potere nel cinema del Terzo Reich

The Third Reich heavily relied on the power of images to entice the heart of the German people, particularly the potential of Erlebnis, of aesthetic experience that was considered a fundamental step in the development of the Nazi political and cultural identity. Such aesthetic experience is not only found in explicit propaganda cinema, but it emerges also though those films in which sentiments can crystallize into moral conceptions which are made instrumental to the hegemonic power. As such, art has the capacity to suggest compelling norms and practices without explicitly imposing them.