{"product_id":"framing-the-fifties-cinema-in-a-divided-germany-9781845455361","title":"Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe demise of the New German Cinema and the return of popular cinema since the 1990s have led to a renewed interest in the postwar years and the complicated relationship between East and West German cinema in particular. A survey of the 1950s, as offered here for the first time, is therefore long overdue. Moving beyond the contempt for \"Papa's Kino\" and the nostalgia for the fifties found in much of the existing literature, this anthology explores new uncharted territories, traces hidden connections, discovers unknown treasures, and challenges conventional interpretations. Informed by cultural studies, gender studies, and the study of popular cinema, this anthology offers a more complete account by focusing on popular genres, famous stars, and dominant practices, by taking into account the complicated relationships between East vs. West German, German vs. European, and European vs. American cinemas; and by paying close attention to the economic and political conditions of film production and reception during this little-known period of German film history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis collection of essays on the cultural history of post-World War II Berlin is a fine and coherent example of the conference-inspired anthology\u003c\/em\u003e…\u003cem\u003eT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ehe sheer number of subjects\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ein this slim volume is impressive and enlightening, and each essay has an excellent bibliography to point the reader in the direction of further literature. As an ensemble, the essays in the volume work well together, to the point that many refer to each other\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGerman Studies Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“These essays are for the most part interesting and persuasive and are an important step in reclaiming what Hake in her introduction calls the ‘last terra incognito of German film studies’.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  German Studies Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“This very attractive collection invites the reader to study the larger project of German cinematic postwar reconstruction and identity formation with a number of excellent essays. The volume appears remarkably coherent, insofar as all 14 contributions are well-researched and well-written investigations… Undoubtedly, Framing the Fifties will trigger further and much-needed research to reintroduce complexity into a field of study that has long suffered from discursive impoverishment. Davidson and Hake have put together a fine volume that will find its grateful readers.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Journal of Contemporary History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e The Question of German Guilt and the “German Student”: Politicizing the Postwar University in Kortner’s \u003ci\u003eDer Ruf\u003c\/i\u003e and von Wangenheim’s \u003ci\u003eUnd wieder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJaimey Fisher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Returning Home: The Orientalist Spectacle of Fritz Lang’s \u003ci\u003eDer Tiger von Eschnapur\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDas indische Grabmal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBarbara Mennel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e The Passenger: Ambivalences of National Identity and Masculinity in the Star Persona of Peter van Eyck\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eTim Bergfelder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Helmut Käutner’s \u003ci\u003eEpilog: Das Geheimnis der Orplid\u003c\/i\u003e and the West German Detective Film of the 1950s\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eYogini Joglekar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Location Heimat: Tracking Refugee Images, from DEFA to the Heimatfilm\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJohannes von Moltke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e \"Great Truths and Minor Truths\": Kurt Maetzig’s \u003ci\u003eErnst Thälmann\u003c\/i\u003e Films, the Antifascism Myth, and the Politics of Biography in the German Democratic Republic\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRussel Lemmons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e The First DEFA Fairy Tales: Cold War Fantasies of the 1950s\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMarc Silberman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Visualizing the Enemy: Representations of the “Other Germany” in Documentaries Produced by the FRG and GDR in the 1950s\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMatthias Steinle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e The Treatment of the Past: Geza Radvanyi’s \u003ci\u003eDer Arzt von Stalingrad\u003c\/i\u003e and the West German War Film\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJennifer M. Kapczynski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Film \u003ci\u003eund Frau\u003c\/i\u003e and the Female Spectator of 1950s West German Cinema\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHester Baer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Reterritorializing Enjoyment in the Adenauer Era: Robert A. Stemmle’s \u003ci\u003eToxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAngelica Fenner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Allegories of Management: Norbert Schultze’s Sound Track for \u003ci\u003eDas Mädchen\u003cbr\u003e \tRosemarie\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLarson Powell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e The Restructuring of the West German Film Industry in the 1950s\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKnut Hickethier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e The Other \"German\" Cinema\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMary Wauchope\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003e \tFilmography\u003cbr\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042979479895,"sku":"9781845455361","price":20.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845455361.jpg?v=1750956498","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/framing-the-fifties-cinema-in-a-divided-germany-9781845455361","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}