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Author Baer, Hester.

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

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PN1993.5.G3 B275 2009    Available  ---
Description xiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Film Europa ; v. 9
Film Europa ; v. 9.
Note "Berghahn on film"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures.
Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Germany.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
Motion pictures for women -- Germany.
Motion pictures for women.
Motion picture audiences -- Germany.
Motion picture audiences.
Women in motion pictures.
Women in motion pictures.
ISBN 9781845456054 hardback alkaline paper
184545605X hardback alkaline paper