| Description |
1 online resource (318 pages) |
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Film Europa, 9 |
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Title page-Dismantling the Dream Factory; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PArt I-Relegitimating Cinema: Female Spectators and the Problem of Representation; Chapter 1-How Do You Solve a Problem Like Susanne?: The Female Gaze in Wolfgang Staudte's the Murderers are Coming Us (1946); Chapter 2-When Fantasy Meets Reality: Authorship and Stardom in Rudolf Jugert's Film Without a Title (1948); Chapter 3-Gendered Visions of the German Past: Wolfgang Libeneiner's Love '47 (1949) As Woman's Film |
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Chapter 4-Unsolved Mysteries: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Helmut Kautner's Epilogue (1950)Part II-Art on Film: Representing Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema; Chapter 5-"Through Her Eyes": Regendering Representation in Willi Forst's The Sinner (1951); Chapter 6-Looking at Heimat: Visual Pleasure and Cinematic Realism in Alfons Stummer's The Forester of the Silver Wood (1955); Chapter 7-Degenerate Art?: Problems of Gender and Sexuality in Veit Harlan's Different From You a |
| Summary |
The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer reassesses this period, looking in particular at how the attempt to "dismantle the dream factory" of Nazi entertainment cinema resulted in a new cinematic language which developed as a result of the changing audience demographic. In an era when female viewers comprised 70 percent of cinema audiences a "women's cinema" emerged, which sought to |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Gender identity in motion pictures.
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Women in motion pictures.
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Gender identity in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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Women in motion pictures
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781845459451 |
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1845459458 |
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