Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Democracy in Action: The Hollywood Anti-Nazi Films of the 1940s -- 2. Resistance to the Resistance: Denazification and Democratization in 1950s West German Cinema -- 3. Melancholy Antifascism: The East German Antifascist Films of the 1960s and 1970s -- 4. Between Art and Exploitation: Fascism and the Politics of Sexuality in 1970s Italian Cinema -- 5. Postpolitical Affects and Intertextual Effects: On Moloch and Inglourious Basterds -- 6. Postfascist Identity Politics: European Resistance Films in the New Millennium -- 7. Entombing the Nazi Past: On Downfall and Historicism -- Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Films.