No place like home : locations of Heimat in German cinema / Johannes von Moltke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Von Moltke, Johannes, 1966-

Series:

Weimar and now ; 36.

Weimar and now ; 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heimatfilme--History and criticism.

Heimatfilme.

Motion pictures--Germany--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive account of Germany's most enduring film genre, the Heimatfilm, which has offered idyllic variations on the idea that "there is no place like home" since cinema's early days. Charting the development of this popular genre over the course of a century in a work informed by film studies, cultural history, and social theory, Johannes von Moltke focuses in particular on its heyday in the 1950's, a period that has been little studied. Questions of what it could possibly mean to call the German nation "home" after the catastrophes of World War II are anxiously present in these films, and von Moltke uses them as a lens through which to view contemporary discourses on German national identity.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Roots

Part II. Routes

Part III. Retrospects

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612763199

9781282763197

1282763199

9781423714903

1423714903

9780520938595

0520938593

9781598755350

1598755358

OCLC:

60931562