Cinema in democratizing Germany : reconstructing national identity after Hitler /

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Author / Creator:Fehrenbach, Heide.
Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 364 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Germany (West)
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Germany (West)
Motion pictures -- Germany (West) -- History.
Cinéma -- Aspect politique -- Allemagne (Ouest)
Cinéma -- Aspect social -- Allemagne (Ouest)
Cinéma -- Allemagne (Ouest) -- Histoire.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Political aspects.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
Filmkunst.
Nationale identiteit.
Film.
Germany (West)
Deutschland
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11100356
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ISBN:0585038120
9780585038124
0807861375
9780807861370
0807822043
0807845124
9780807822043
9780807845127
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-349) and index.
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Summary: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. 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 [Publisher description].
Other form:Print version: Fehrenbach, Heide. Cinema in democratizing Germany. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995 0807822043