Dismantling the dream factory : gender, German cinema, and the postwar quest for a new film language / Hester Baer.

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...

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Main Author: Baer, Hester
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Series:Film Europa ; v. 9.
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505 0 |a 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 Kätner'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 Kätner'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. 
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