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.
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