Nietzsche in Hollywood: Images of the Übermensch in Early American Cinema

Argues that Nietzsche's idea of the Übermensch was a central concern of filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s.

Nietzsche in Hollywood offers a compelling and startling history of Hollywood film in which the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his idea of the Übermensch looms large. Though Nietzsche's philosophy was attacked as egoistic and a sociopathic version of Darwinism in films from the 1910s, it undergoes a series of cinematic and philosophical transformations in the 1920s and 1930s...