Bill Niven
Biographic Data
| ID | 509840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bill Niven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bill |
| FAMILY NAME | Niven |
| SIGNATURE | NIVEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aufsätze /Articles. Jud Süß: Geschichte eines antisemitischen Films
National and Transnational Memories of the Kindertransport: Exhibitions, Memorials, and Commemorations
Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe
The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today’s eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing sense of the need to stage a more “self-critical” memory has significantly changed the way in which western Europe commemorates and memorializes the…
John Kampfner, Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-up Country
Memory of the Kindertransport in Britain and Germany, and the current refugee crisis
This article sets out to categorise and analyse the ways Holocaust memory can be supportively deployed. It does so by example of memory of the Kindertransport, the rescue of over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazism prior to the outbreak of the Second World War to several different host nations. We present here our theory of invocative memory, arguing that responses to humanitarian crises in the present actively and instrumentally draw on Holocaust…
Hitler and Film: The Führer's Hidden Passion
An exposé of Hitler’s relationship with film and his influence on the film industry A presence in Third Reich cinema, Adolf Hitler also personally financed, ordered, and censored films and newsreels and engaged in complex relationships with their stars and directors. 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 explo…
Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe
The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today’s eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing sense of the need to stage a more “self-critical” memory has significantly changed the way in which western Europe commemorates and memorializes the…
From Countermonument to Combimemorial: Developments in German Memorialization
This article argues that the so-called ‘countermonuments’ which emerged in West Germany as of the 1980s are not as pathbreakingly new, in terms of their intentions, as has hitherto been thought. It examines post-1945 West German memorials to Jewish victims of Nazism to demonstrate this point. At the same time it seeks to define exactly what it was that was new about the ‘countermonuments’. It concludes by identifying a new breed of memorials whic…
Janet Jacobs, Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory
Irène Heidelberger-Leonard, The Philosopher of Auschwitz: Jean Améry and Living with the Holocaust
On a Supposed Taboo: Flight and Refugees From the East in GDR Film and Television 1
This article takes issue with the view that the theme of the flight of Germans from central and eastern Europe at the end of the Second World War was a ‘taboo’ topic in the GDR. It does so by exploring portrayals of this theme in GDR cinema films, and television series. It argues that, because GDR culture developed and retained through the decades an interest in representing the early postwar period, it was almost inevitable that cultural portray…
Lexikon der Vertreibungen: Deportation, Zwangsaussiedlung und ethnische Säuberung im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts
Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
The figure of the soldier as resister: German film and the difficult legacy of Claus Schenck Graf von Stauffenberg
This year, Bryan Singer's film Valkyrie (2008) was screened in cinemas around the world. This article sets out to show that, while Valkyrie provides a very uncomplicated heroicization of the German resistance figure Stauffenberg, German films from the 1950s onwards situate their representations within a richer and more complex discursive framework. This was necessary, the article argues, because the legacy of Stauffenberg in post-war West Germany…
Dynamics of Memory in Twenty-first Century Germany
As the inestimable Harold Wilson once put it, "a week is a longtime in politics." Certainly, the evolution of collective memory andscholarship devoted to it is much slower than the pace of day-to-daypolitics. Yet, there are periods of rapid change-of paradigm shiftseven-where the landscape shifts rapidly over a relatively shortperiod of time. This special issue, we think, captures one of theseperiods of rapid change. Compared to the last special …
The Good Captain and the Bad Captain: Joseph Vilsmaier's 'Die Gustloff' and the Erosion of Complexity
This article provides an interpretation of Josef Vilsmaier's two-part television feature film, Die Gustloff (2008), which depicts the sinking of that ship in January 1945. It argues that Vilsmaier, at the expense of historical fact, pins blame for the fateful decisions that led to the ship being vulnerable to attack on the Navy, while simultaneously seeking to exculpate and even glorify the Merchant Navy representatives on board. Die Gustloff see…
War memorials at the intersection of politics, culture and memory
War memorials are amongst the oldest memorials in the world. This paper provides a brief history of the way their function has evolved, focusing in particular on European war memorials constructed after the First and Second World Wars. It argues that, generally speaking, war memorials before the First World War were celebratory in character and served to underpin the authority of victorious leaders or nations. After 1918, they functioned often as…
The GDR and Memory of the Bombing of Dresden
Remembering the Holocaust: Representation, Neglect and Instrumentalization
Alles nur Pop? Anmerkungen zur popularen und Pop-Literatur seit 1990
Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration
1The Nottingham Trent University Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration NorbertFrei JoelGolb New York Columbia University Press 2002 xv + 365 $ 35.00
Questions of responsibility in past and present: New research into the Holocaust
Facing the Nazi Past: United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich
Facing the Nazi Past examines how the communist East viewed the events of these years very differently from West Germany during the Cold War. Following the unification of Germany, these contrasting memories of the Third Reich have contributed to a new perspective on this period of German history. Facing the Nazi Past explores the developments and debates that were symptomatic of this shift towards a more open confrontation with the past, such as:…
Facing the Nazi past: United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich
Facing the Nazi Past examines how the communist East viewed the events of these years very differently from West Germany during the Cold War. Following the unification of Germany, these contrasting memories of the Third Reich have contributed to a new perspective on this period of German history. Facing the Nazi Past explores the developments and debates that were symptomatic of this shift towards a more open confrontation with the past, such as:…
Martin Walser's Tod eines Kritikers and the Issue of Anti‐Semitism
Martin Walser's latest novel Tod eines Kritikers has been the subject of intense debate in Germany, particularly prior to its publication in June 2002. For some, the novel is anti‐Semitic and signals Walser's arrival in the far right‐wing camp; for others, it is merely a largely harmless satire. The following article briefly examines the patterns of this debate, the course of which was influenced by a degree of scandalmongering. The main focus is…
War memorials at the intersection of politics, culture and memory
War memorials are amongst the oldest memorials in the world. This paper provides a brief history of the way their function has evolved, focusing in particular on European war memorials constructed after the First and Second World Wars. It argues that, generally speaking, war memorials before the First World War were celebratory in character and served to underpin the authority of victorious leaders or nations. After 1918, they functioned often as…
From Countermonument to Combimemorial: Developments in German Memorialization
This article argues that the so-called ‘countermonuments’ which emerged in West Germany as of the 1980s are not as pathbreakingly new, in terms of their intentions, as has hitherto been thought. It examines post-1945 West German memorials to Jewish victims of Nazism to demonstrate this point. At the same time it seeks to define exactly what it was that was new about the ‘countermonuments’. It concludes by identifying a new breed of memorials whic…
Apocalyptic Elements in National Socialist ‘Thingspiele’ and in Drama of the Weimar Republic
Apocalyptic Elements in National Socialist ‘Thingspiele’ and in Drama of the Weimar Republic
Facing the Nazi Past: United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich
Facing the Nazi Past examines how the communist East viewed the events of these years very differently from West Germany during the Cold War. Following the unification of Germany, these contrasting memories of the Third Reich have contributed to a new perspective on this period of German history. Facing the Nazi Past explores the developments and debates that were symptomatic of this shift towards a more open confrontation with the past, such as:…
Facing the Nazi past: United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich
Facing the Nazi Past examines how the communist East viewed the events of these years very differently from West Germany during the Cold War. Following the unification of Germany, these contrasting memories of the Third Reich have contributed to a new perspective on this period of German history. Facing the Nazi Past explores the developments and debates that were symptomatic of this shift towards a more open confrontation with the past, such as:…
Martin Walser's Tod eines Kritikers and the Issue of Anti‐Semitism
Martin Walser's latest novel Tod eines Kritikers has been the subject of intense debate in Germany, particularly prior to its publication in June 2002. For some, the novel is anti‐Semitic and signals Walser's arrival in the far right‐wing camp; for others, it is merely a largely harmless satire. The following article briefly examines the patterns of this debate, the course of which was influenced by a degree of scandalmongering. The main focus is…
Alles nur Pop? Anmerkungen zur popularen und Pop-Literatur seit 1990
Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration
1The Nottingham Trent University Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration NorbertFrei JoelGolb New York Columbia University Press 2002 xv + 365 $ 35.00
Questions of responsibility in past and present: New research into the Holocaust
The GDR and Memory of the Bombing of Dresden
Remembering the Holocaust: Representation, Neglect and Instrumentalization
War memorials at the intersection of politics, culture and memory
War memorials are amongst the oldest memorials in the world. This paper provides a brief history of the way their function has evolved, focusing in particular on European war memorials constructed after the First and Second World Wars. It argues that, generally speaking, war memorials before the First World War were celebratory in character and served to underpin the authority of victorious leaders or nations. After 1918, they functioned often as…
Dynamics of Memory in Twenty-first Century Germany
As the inestimable Harold Wilson once put it, "a week is a longtime in politics." Certainly, the evolution of collective memory andscholarship devoted to it is much slower than the pace of day-to-daypolitics. Yet, there are periods of rapid change-of paradigm shiftseven-where the landscape shifts rapidly over a relatively shortperiod of time. This special issue, we think, captures one of theseperiods of rapid change. Compared to the last special …
The Good Captain and the Bad Captain: Joseph Vilsmaier's 'Die Gustloff' and the Erosion of Complexity
This article provides an interpretation of Josef Vilsmaier's two-part television feature film, Die Gustloff (2008), which depicts the sinking of that ship in January 1945. It argues that Vilsmaier, at the expense of historical fact, pins blame for the fateful decisions that led to the ship being vulnerable to attack on the Navy, while simultaneously seeking to exculpate and even glorify the Merchant Navy representatives on board. Die Gustloff see…
The figure of the soldier as resister: German film and the difficult legacy of Claus Schenck Graf von Stauffenberg
This year, Bryan Singer's film Valkyrie (2008) was screened in cinemas around the world. This article sets out to show that, while Valkyrie provides a very uncomplicated heroicization of the German resistance figure Stauffenberg, German films from the 1950s onwards situate their representations within a richer and more complex discursive framework. This was necessary, the article argues, because the legacy of Stauffenberg in post-war West Germany…
Irène Heidelberger-Leonard, The Philosopher of Auschwitz: Jean Améry and Living with the Holocaust
On a Supposed Taboo: Flight and Refugees From the East in GDR Film and Television 1
This article takes issue with the view that the theme of the flight of Germans from central and eastern Europe at the end of the Second World War was a ‘taboo’ topic in the GDR. It does so by exploring portrayals of this theme in GDR cinema films, and television series. It argues that, because GDR culture developed and retained through the decades an interest in representing the early postwar period, it was almost inevitable that cultural portray…
Lexikon der Vertreibungen: Deportation, Zwangsaussiedlung und ethnische Säuberung im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts
Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe
The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today’s eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing sense of the need to stage a more “self-critical” memory has significantly changed the way in which western Europe commemorates and memorializes the…
From Countermonument to Combimemorial: Developments in German Memorialization
This article argues that the so-called ‘countermonuments’ which emerged in West Germany as of the 1980s are not as pathbreakingly new, in terms of their intentions, as has hitherto been thought. It examines post-1945 West German memorials to Jewish victims of Nazism to demonstrate this point. At the same time it seeks to define exactly what it was that was new about the ‘countermonuments’. It concludes by identifying a new breed of memorials whic…
Janet Jacobs, Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory
Hitler and Film: The Führer's Hidden Passion
An exposé of Hitler’s relationship with film and his influence on the film industry A presence in Third Reich cinema, Adolf Hitler also personally financed, ordered, and censored films and newsreels and engaged in complex relationships with their stars and directors. 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 explo…
Memory of the Kindertransport in Britain and Germany, and the current refugee crisis
This article sets out to categorise and analyse the ways Holocaust memory can be supportively deployed. It does so by example of memory of the Kindertransport, the rescue of over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazism prior to the outbreak of the Second World War to several different host nations. We present here our theory of invocative memory, arguing that responses to humanitarian crises in the present actively and instrumentally draw on Holocaust…
Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe
The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today’s eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing sense of the need to stage a more “self-critical” memory has significantly changed the way in which western Europe commemorates and memorializes the…
John Kampfner, Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-up Country
National and Transnational Memories of the Kindertransport: Exhibitions, Memorials, and Commemorations
Political science (18 works) · History (15 works) · Art (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (13 works) · European history and politics (11 works) · German History and Society (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · History (10 works) · German (9 works)