Gilroy, "Hitler Wore Khakis" Sight and Sound

[Tyrone Slothrop]

I am pretty sure the article was about a rumor (that
was false) which was being spread that Jurassic Park 3
was going to be Dogme film. I think it was a very
short mention.

Thank you for your help.


--- Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu> wrote:
> Lt. Slothrop, sir--
> 
> Sight and Sound does have a website,
> http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/.  I can't tell
> that's it's
> searchable, though it does list back issue details,
> see
>
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/backissues/index.html.
>  Some
> material from the past year is online @
>
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/archive/index.html,
> but I don't
> recall any such claim about a Dogmetic J3 being
> made, much less
> seriously.  April (as in "Fools") issue, perhaps? 
> Do recall some
> shenanigans there.  I don't get rid of anything, so
> I likely have that
> issue somewhere around the house--trick is finding
> it.  The local
> university library gets it, when I get a chance I'll
> take a look, though
> it'll likely be after the weekend at earliest.  Feel
> free to e-mail me
> to remind me ...
> 
> Tyrone Slothrop wrote:
> 
> > Dave,
> >
> > How long have you been reading Sight and Sound? Do
> you
> > have old copies? I heard about a year ago there
> was an
> > article or a blurb about Jurassic Park 3 being
> filmed
> > according to the Dogme Vows. Do you have this
> issue?
> > What does the article say? I love Dogme and have
> tried
> > to find old copies of Sight and Sound, but I don't
> > which issue it was in and I can't order the right
> one
> > without knowing which one is right.
> >
> > Can you help? Can anyone help?
> >
> > Check www.dogme95.dk
> > --- Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu> wrote:
> > > ... was led to this by an editorial on Leni
> > > Riefenstahl in the current
> > > issue of Sight and Sound, of all places.  Fans
> of
> > > reggae and hip-hop
> > > here might well be interseted in Paul Gilroy's
> There
> > > Ain't No Black in
> > > the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race
> and
> > > Nation (Chicago: U of
> > > Chicago P 1991 [1987]) and The Black Atlantic:
> > > Modernity and Double
> > > Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1993),
> > > respectively, but, in
> > > the meantime, from his recent Against Race:
> > > Imagining Political Culture
> > > beyond the Color Line (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
> UP,
> > > 2000), pub. in the UK
> > > as Bewteen Camps: Nations, Cultures and the
> Allure
> > > of Race
> > > (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000), Chapter 4,
> "Hitler
> > > Wore Khakis," pp.
> > > 137-76 (UK pagination may differ) ...
> > >
> > > The loss of German colonies after 1918 turned
> German
> > > racial science in a
> > > distinctive direction by reducing opportunities
> to
> > > study colonial
> > > peoples at a stroke.  By itself, the history of
> > > German anthropology,
> > > which was closely connected to teh develoopment
> of
> > > racial hygiene,
> > > raises what can only be described as an
> interesting
> > > prima facie case for
> > > the importance of raciology as a critical link
> > > between colonial
> > > administration and the subsequent catastrophic
> > > direction of genocidal
> > > social policy under Nazism.  One pivotal figure
> in
> > > establishing that
> > > connection was Eugen Fischer, a prominent figure
> in
> > > teh intellectual
> > > pantheon of the Nazi academy.  He was his
> country's
> > > most distinguished
> > > anthropologist and expert on "race-mixing"
> during
> > > the interwar years.
> > > He is remembered now as the director of teh
> Kaiser
> > > Wilhelm Institute for
> > > Anthropology, Genetics, and Eugenics and as teh
> > > author of The Rehoboth
> > > Bastards and the Problem of Miscegenation among
> > > Humans ....   Fischer
> > > had conducted the fieldwork for his
> ground-breaking
> > > study in teh German
> > > colony of South West Africa in 1908--one year
> after
> > > the defeat of teh
> > > Hereros.  His subject was defined through a
> study of
> > > teh results of
> > > racial intermixture bewteen Dutch and Hottentot
> > > populations.  The impact
> > > of his work would be felt later in the racial
> > > legislation enacted under
> > > the Nazis.  (141-2)
> > >
> > > From this auspicious beginning, Fischer's
> career,
> > > which parallels the
> > > professional odyssey of his dear friend Martin
> > > Heidegger in a number of
> > > ways (not least hsi role in cleansing Germany's
> most
> > > prestigious
> > > university of Jews), took him to teh
> Nazi-appointed
> > > rectorship of Berlin
> > > University in 1933, and to such tasks as judging
> the
> > > "ideal Nordic head"
> > > in a competition ....  He would later employ teh
> sam
> > > scientific skills
> > > in training the SS physicians who would make
> camp
> > > selections in physical
> > > anthropology and racial science ....  In concert
> > > with his better-known
> > > colleague Hans Gunther ... Fischer also helped
> to
> > > organize the
> > > anthropological evaluation of the
> > > "Rheinlandbastarde," the mongrel
> > > offspring of German women and the French
> colonial
> > > troops who had been
> > > placed in teh Rheinland as an accupying army
> after
> > > 1918. (142)
> > >
> > > If anthropologists and distinguished professors
> like
> > > Fischer made use of
> > > their colonial experiences in later activities
> > > inside Europe, might not
> > > the military men have done the same thing?  The
> > > possibility of any
> > > linkage need not, of course, be approached
> > > exclusively in a negative
> > > mode.  We might also ask whether, by the time
> the
> > > Nazis had siezed
> > > power, there was any lingering life left in teh
> > > political and religious
> > > opinion that had protested over General von
> Trotha's
> > > lusty but
> > > controversial attempts at the extermination of
> teh
> > > Herero people he held
> > > in "protective custody." (143)
> > >
> > > ... but it's the sources cited in Gilroy's
> endnotes
> > > that might be of
> > > particular interest here.  First off, he cites
> what
> > > seems to be a
> > > veritable genre of "German novels dealing with
> the
> > > suppression of the
> > > Herero uprising in South West Africa" (p. 369,
> n.
> > > 10), e.g.,
> > >
> > > Frenssen, Gustav.  Peter Moors Fahrt nach
> Sudwest:
> > > Ein Feldugs-
> 
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