Dismantling the dream factory: gender, German cinema, and the postwar quest for a new film language
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Main Author: Baer, Hester 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Berghahn Books 2009
Series:Film Europa: German cinema in an international context 9
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Relegitimating cinema: female spectators and the problem of representation -- How do you solve a problem like Susanne?: the female gaze in Wolfgang Staudte's The murderers are among us (1946) -- When fantasy meets reality: authorship and stardom in Rudolf Jugert's Film without a title (1948) -- Gendered visions of the German past: Wolfgang Liebeneiner's Love '47 (1949) as woman's film -- Unsolved mysteries: race, ethnicity, and gender in Helmut Käutner's Epilogue (1950) -- Art on film: representing gender and sexuality in popular cinema -- "Through her eyes": regendering representation in Willi Forst's The sinner (1951) -- Looking at Heimat: visual pleasure and cinematic realism in Alfons Stummer's The forester of the silver wood (1955) -- Degenerate art?: problems of gender and sexuality in Veit Harlan's Different from you and me (175) (1957) -- Towards the new wave: gender and the critique of popular cinema -- Pleasurable negotiations: spectatorship and genre in Helmut Käutner's "anti-tearjerker" Engagement in Zurich (1957) -- Sound and spectacle in the Wirtschaftswunder: the critical strategies of Rolf Thiele's The girl Rosemarie (1958) -- Gender and the new wave: Herbert Vesely's The bread of those early years (1962) as transitional film -- Epilogue: adapting the 1950s: the afterlife of postwar cinema in post-unification popular culture
Physical Description:XIII, 304 S. Ill. 24 cm
ISBN:9781845456054
9780857456175

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