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Alexis Pogorelskin is Professor Emerita in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, USA, where she was the department chair for nineteen years. She has published in Slavic Review and Oxford Slavonic Papers. She has taught History of Hollywood at the Russian State University for the Humanities while on a Fulbright. She was Rhodes Visiting Fellow at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, UK, and in 2015, she was the first Vera Brittain Scholar on Women and War at the University of Southampton, UK.
""This is a wonderful book, a compelling book, a scholarly book that reads like a suspense novel or tragic drama. Its riveting historical-political analysis of rarely seen archival documents reveals a hidden tale of two British women writers' heroic work on behalf of truth and Nazi Germany's persecuted Jews within the often brutal, masculine American institutions of 1930s and 1940s Hollywood, government, and politics."" --Kristin Bluemel, Professor of English and Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Monmouth University, USA ""Alexis Pogorelskin's thoroughly researched examination of The Mortal Storm does much more than tell the story of a powerful novel that MGM turned into 1940s most controversial film. Using clear prose and penetrating analysis, Hollywood and the Nazis on the Eve of War interweaves history, literary criticism, and psychology to illuminate a pivotal period in American and world history. Anyone interested in literature, movies, or politics should read this penetrating study."" --David Welky, Professor of History, University of Central Arkansas, USA, and author of The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II ""A timely book on a what could be called an early Holocaust film, released on the eve of the United States' entry into World War II. In exploring The Mortal Storm Alexis Pogorelskin marshalls an impressive range of sources to argue for the reconsideration of this key, but often overlooked, movie."" --Nathan Abrams, Professor in Film, Bangor University, UK ""In 1941 Senate isolationists cited The Mortal Storm (1940) as the most egregious example of recent anti-Nazi Hollywood films promoting American entry into World War II. Alexis Pogorelskin brilliantly and painstakingly examines the biographical roots that motivated Phyllis Bottome to write the eponymous novel, the domestic and international developments it addressed, and MGM's attenuation of its condemnation of Nazi antisemitism in favor of its interventionist message that resonated with audiences and critics witnessing Hitler's invasions of Western European countries in 1940."" --Lawrence Baron, Emeritus Professor, San Diego State University, USA
The Monstrous-Feminine
Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
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