Dismantling the dream factory : gender, German cinema, and the postwar quest for a new film language /: gender, German cinema, and the postwar quest for a new film language. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Gender, German cinema, and the postwar quest for a new film language
• Further Information: Note: Hester Baer.
• Other Names: Baer, Hester
• 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 791.430943/09044; Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Motion pictures for women -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Motion picture audiences -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Women in motion pictures -- History -- 20th century; Motion picture audiences; Motion pictures; Motion pictures for women; Motion pictures -- Social aspects; Women in motion pictures; ART -- Film & Video; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Germany; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845459451; 1845459458
• Related ISBNs: 9781845456054; 184545605X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289) and index.; Note: Print version.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.