The Imaginary Reich. Construction of the Mythology of Nazism in La Caduta degli Dei and Il Portiere di Notte

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Published 02-10-2024
Xosé Carlos Veiga García

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We deal with the process by which in the West of the 1960s and 1970s a mythology of Nazism began to be built that dissociated it from historical fact and mnemonic discourse, thus allowing it to become a habitual inspiration and source of all kinds of fictional works. We do it through an in-depth analysis of two films, La Caduta degli Dei (Visconti, 1969) and Il Portiere di Notte (Cavani, 1974), very representative of the sadiconazista phenomenon of Italian cinema, which caused great controversy in its time but, undoubtedly, contributed to the opening of frames necessary for the entry into the public space of atypical and disruptive forms of representation of the past. We defend the interpretation that this process consisted in giving the constitutive elements of the imaginary about National Socialism an archetypal and metaphorical value.

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