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German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins (Studies in European Culture and History)

By Wilfried Wilms , William Rasch

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0230608256, 9780230608252
LCC
PN1995.9.R83 G47 2008
Open Library ID
OL16637192M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1499028 bytes)
Pages
232\231
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This volume of essays by scholars of German film and culture examines the relatively neglected German films of the immediate post-World War II period, the so-called "rubble films."  Often seen merely as symptoms of a particular German malady--the supposed inability to confront the sins of its immediate past--these films have rarely been examined for their aesthetic qualities and for what they actually depict about postwar German life, attitudes, and fears.  Placed within the context of German film history of the postwar period and Allied censorship, the essays examine both well-known and nearly forgotten films for their narrative structure, aesthetic strategies, political ideologies, psychological portraits of damaged adults and orphaned youth, and the nuances of the history they reveal.

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