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No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)

By Johannes von Moltke

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
9780520244108, 0520244109, 9781423714903
LCC
PN1995.9.H4 V66 2005
Open Library ID
OL3297482M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2984424 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
318\319
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is the first comprehensive account of Germany's most enduring film genre, the Heimatfilm, which has offered idyllic variations on the idea that "there is no place like home" since cinema's early days. Charting the development of this popular genre over the course of a century in a work informed by film studies, cultural history, and social theory, Johannes von Moltke focuses in particular on its heyday in the 1950s, a period that has been little studied. Questions of what it could possibly mean to call the German nation "home" after the catastrophes of World War II are anxiously present in these films, and von Moltke uses them as a lens through which to view contemporary discourses on German national identity.

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