Of Lightning Rods, Prisms, and Forgotten Scissors: Potemkin and German Film Theory.

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      GERMANY
    • Subject Terms:
      BATTLESHIP Potemkin (Film)
    • Abstract:
      The article discusses issues concerning the controversy surrounding the release the war film "Battleship Potemkin" in Germany on April 29, 1926. The film has secured for itself a place in the annals of censorship and of anti-Communist and anti-Semitic propaganda. Two of the most recurrent negative responses to the film are concerned with the issue of Tendenzkunst or tendentious art and that of collective art.