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Dismantling the dream factory : gender, German cinema, and the postwar quest for a new film language / Hester Baer.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.G3 B275 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baer, Hester.
- Series:
- Film Europa ; v. 9.
- Film Europa ; v. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Germany--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture audiences.
- Motion pictures for women.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- Germany.
- History.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--Germany.
- Motion pictures for women--Germany.
- Motion picture audiences--Germany.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Berghahn on film"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781845456054
- 184545605X
- OCLC:
- 316825701
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