According to Fehrenbach, the process of national redefinition made cinema and cinematic control a focus of heated ideological debate. Moving beyond a narrow political examination of Allied-German negotiations, she investigates the broader social nexus of popular moviegoing, public demonstrations, film clubs, and municipal festivals. She also draws on work in gender and film studies to probe the ways filmmakers, students, church leaders, local politicians, and the general public articulated national identity in relation to the challenges posed by military occupation, American commercial culture, and redefined gender roles. Thus highlighting the links between national identity and cultural practice, this book provides a richer picture of what German reconstruction entailed for both women and men.
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Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she explores the complex political uses of film—and the meanings attributed to film representation and spectatorship—during a period of abrupt transition to democracy.
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By the interwar years, filmgoing had become a habit, and sometimes an obsession, for millions in the industrialized West. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
film club meeting, mehr fliehen, wir wieder zusammen waren, film industry members, film monopoly, commercial film industry, film officers, sind unter uns, film clubs, film attendance, film matters, film commissioners, film policy, film censorship board, film committee, und morgen, cinematic culture, film prize, film control, film interests, film spectatorship, film activity, reeducation program, censorship legislation, cinema owners Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West German, World War, Third Reich, United States, Democratizing Germany, Cold War, Federal Republic, National Socialist, Erich Pommer, Soviet Union, Black Forest, Frau Teichmann, Ministry of the Interior, Berlin Senate, New York, Werner Hess, Western Allies, Willi Forst, Bad Ems, Wolfgang Staudte, Christian West, East German, Alfred Bauer, Anton Kochs, Bavarian Cultural Ministry New!
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film club meeting, mehr fliehen, wir wieder zusammen waren, film industry members, film monopoly, commercial film industry, film officers, sind unter uns, film clubs, film attendance, film matters, film commissioners, film policy, film censorship board, film committee, und morgen, cinematic culture, film prize, film control, film interests, film spectatorship, film activity, reeducation program, censorship legislation, cinema owners Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West German, World War, Third Reich, United States, Democratizing Germany, Cold War, Federal Republic, National Socialist, Erich Pommer, Soviet Union, Black Forest, Frau Teichmann, Ministry of the Interior, Berlin Senate, New York, Werner Hess, Western Allies, Willi Forst, Bad Ems, Wolfgang Staudte, Christian West, East German, Alfred Bauer, Anton Kochs, Bavarian Cultural Ministry New!
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- Fifty Years of German Film (The Literature of cinema. Series II) by H. H. Wollenberg on 7 pages
- From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Princeton Classic Editions) by Siegfried Kracauer on 7 pages
- Women in German History: From Bourgeois Emancipation to Sexual Liberation by Ute Frevert on 4 pages
- Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany: Leisure and Recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia by Lynn Abrams on 4 pages
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