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In this lecture, Anja Laukötter, Researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, discusses the political significance of film and emotions in National Socialism. She explains how Nazi ideology and culture politics led to the conception and production of films as a forum for regulating affect. She then explores the regime's ambivalent sexual politics, and in particular its attempts to fight the spread of venereal disease, which took on new relevance for the military after the beginning of the Second World War.
In this lecture, Anja Laukötter, Researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, discusses the political significance of film and emotions in National Socialism. She explains how Nazi ideology and culture politics led to the conception and production of films as a forum for regulating affect. She then explores the regime's ambivalent sexual politics, and in particular its attempts to fight the spread of venereal disease, which took on new relevance for the military after the beginning of the Second World War.
