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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813377503321

Autore

Fay Jennifer

Titolo

Theaters of occupation : Hollywood and the reeducation of postwar Germany / / Jennifer Fay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-5650-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

791.430943/09045

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Germany - History

Motion pictures, American - Germany - History

Germany History 1945-1955

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Theaters of Occupation; 1. Germany Is a Boy in Trouble; 2. Hollywood's Democratic Unconscious; 3. Garbo Laughs and Germans Eat; 4. That's Jazz Made in Germany; 5. A Gothic Occupation; Epilogue: Berlin, Fifty Years Later; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In a rigorous analysis of the American occupation of postwar Germany and the military's use of "soft power," Jennifer Fay considers how Hollywood films, including Ninotchka, Gaslight, and Stagecoach, influenced German culture and cinema. Theaters of Occupation reveals how Germans responded to these education efforts and offers new insights about American exceptionalism and virtual democracy at the dawn of the cold war.