나치독재의 ‘문화혁명’ 담론과 독일영화의 혁명화 프로젝트

‘Cultural Revolution’ Discours and Cinema Revolution Project under the Nazi Dictatorship

During the so-called total crisis in the later phase of the Weimar republic the National Socialists declared publicly that only their Cultural Revolution( CR) could stop the collapse of the western civilization through the social and cultural reformation and renaissance, that they should construct the New People Community as a cultural utopia, Kulturvolksgemeinschaft under the Nationals Socialists Reich. It was very interesting that their public declaration did not remain a political rhetoric, but was really put into practice after the seizure of the political power, so that it had a power to fabricate the reality differently. In this context it is important to raise questions: in which historical context was the National Socialists Cultural Revolution discours come into being? What was the real order of their cultural revolution discours? How important did the Nazis consider the film revolution project? And which supports did the Nazis really act out to realize the cinema revolution project? Here I will reply shortly to these critical questions respectively. Firstly, the critical problem, how the Nazis appropriated the cultural crisis of the later Weimar republic, is examined. So it comes to a conclusion that the Nazis emphasized the inevitability of their cultural revolution especially in the face of the Weimar crisis. Secondly, it is natural that the order of the Nazis cultural discours is illuminated by the deep observation on the German cinema revolution project, because the cinema revolution was the backbone of the Nazis cultural revolution. Thirdly, it make clear how the movies circles, especially the cinema newspapers reacted against the revolution project of the German cinema. It is very valuable to keep an eye on this point, because their positive reaction was made full use as a pretext for its radical performance. As a result, this research will first of all help to analyze the cultural revolution discours of the conservatives, then to make a rough sketch the cinema revolution project as a main program of the cultural revolution of the Nazi dictatorship, and finally to redefine the nature of the Nazi dictatorship as a cultural dictatorship.