This dossier is dedicated to Marcel L’Herbier, a seminal figure in twentieth-century cinema who, although very prolific, remains little known outside France. It grows out of the 4th Fashion in Film Festival, a film season which celebrated L’Herbier’s unique position in French cinema – and cinema more generally – as a driving force behind many sign…[Read more]

This article summarises the contents of my 1998 book on the same subject.

This short piece reflects on the reception of the reissue of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ in 2016, and serves as an end piece to a collection of articles on ‘Mein Kampf’ curated by the German Historical Institute, London, in 2017. The collection appears in the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute and can be accessed in its entirely on the…[Read more]

This article is a brief set of reflections on the problems associated with trying to read and interpret Hitler’s text ‘Mein Kampf’ historically 70 years after it came out of copyright. The context is the wider set of conversations about the place of ‘Mein Kampf’ in German history and contemporary political culture prompted by the republication…[Read more]