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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459117303321

Autore

Shandley Robert R

Titolo

Rubble films [[electronic resource] ] : German cinema in the shadow of the Third Reich / / Robert R. Shandley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pa., : Temple University Press, c2001

ISBN

1-282-65857-3

9786612658570

1-59213-806-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/0943/09045

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Germany - History

Rubble films - Germany - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-210), filmography (p. 211-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Dismantling the Dream Factory: The Film Industry in Berubbled Germany; 2. Coming Home through Rubble Canyons:The Murderers Are among Us and Generic Convention; 3. It's a Wonderful Reich: Private Innocence and Public Guilt; 4. The Sword That Smote You: Jewish Filmmakers and the Visual Reconstruction of Jews in German Film; 5. The Trouble with Rubble: DEFA's Social Problem Films; 6. Comedic Redemption and the End of Rubble Film Discourse; Conclusion: The Vanishing Rubble Film in Postwar Historiography; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Filmography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

At the end of World War II, Germany was a broken nation. Split in two and occupied by the victorious Allies, it would have to be rebuilt, literally, from the rubble of its own defeat. Volumes of books have been published chronicling its structural and economic rebirth; this unique study reveals how Germany rebuilt itself culturally.Rubble Films is a close look at German cinema in the immediate postwar era, and a careful examination of its relationship to Allied occupation. Shandley reveals how German film borrowed -- both literally and figuratively --



from its Nazi past, an