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Professor Niven teaches German history. In recent years, he has (co)organised symposia and conferences (also for postgraduates) on the relationship between culture, politics and memory in Germany and Europe.
- mailto:william.niven@ntu.ac.uk
- Nottingham Trent University
- Professor in Contemporary German History
Jun 29, 2020 · What, then, is Bill Niven’s contribution to this crowded field? In Hitler and Film: The Fuhrer’s Hidden Passion, Niven takes a novel approach to Nazi film policy, shifting the focus from Joseph Goebbels to Adolf Hitler.
- Cora Sol Goldstein
- 2020
Bill Niven. Producer: Heartbeat. Bill Niven began his film career in 1984 at Telefilm Canada with positions in Halifax, Vancouver, Toronto, Paris, London and Los Angeles. In 1995, Niven produced the Gotham Awards in New York for the IFP. In 1996 he joined Salter Street films as VP Development.
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Bill Niven opens this erudite and engaging book by noting that previous authors have argued for Adolf Hitler’s overriding interest in specific art forms, including architecture, music (more specifically, opera), painting and sculpture, interior design, and literature. Nivens brief here is. ’.
Jan 1, 2018 · Here, Bill Niven offers a powerful argument for reconsidering Hitler's fascination with film as a means to further the Nazi agenda. In this first English-language work to fully explore...
Bill Niven is Professor of Contemporary German History at Nottingham Trent University, England. He has published widely on Germany’s efforts to come to terms with its National Socialist past. Among his publications are the monographs Facing the Nazi Past (Routledge, 2000) and The Buchenwald Child (Camden House, 2007).
Bill Niven is Professor of Contemporary German History at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is author of Facing the Nazi Past (2002), and editor of Germans as Victims (2006). He is currently preparing a book called A Post-Holocaust History of Germany, 1945–2010, and editing a volume on the history and memory of the sinking of the Wilhelm ...
