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Cinema in Democratizing Germany
Reconstructing National Identity After Hitler
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Book Presentation:
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.
About the Author:
Heide Fehrenbach is assistant professor of history at Colgate University.
Press Reviews:
"This book is both tightly woven and engagingly written.
"American Historical Review"
A model of how history and film studies can blend together, each informing the other in unexpected ways.
Steven Mintz, "H-Film"
This impressive study . . . will become a standard in the historiography of the postwar era.
Robert G. Moeller, University of California, Irvine
"""This book is both tightly woven and engagingly written.
"American Historical Review""
"A model of how history and film studies can blend together, each informing the other in unexpected ways.
Steven Mintz, "H-Film""
"This impressive study . . . will become a standard in the historiography of the postwar era.
Robert G. Moeller, University of California, Irvine"
See the publisher website: University of of North Carolina Press
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