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Framing the Fifties - Cinema in a Divided Germany (Paperback)
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Framing the Fifties - Cinema in a Divided Germany (Paperback)
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The demise of the New German Cinema and the return of popular
cinema since the 1990s have led to a renewed interest in the
postwar years and the complicated relationship between East and
West German cinema in particular. A survey of the 1950s, as offered
here for the first time, is therefore long overdue. Moving beyond
the contempt for "Papa's Kino" and the nostalgia for the 'fifties
found in much of the existing literature, this anthology explores
new uncharted territories, traces hidden connections, discovers
unknown treasures, and challenges conventional interpretations.
Informed by cultural studies, gender studies, and the study of
popular cinema, this anthology offers a more complete account by
focusing on popular genres, famous stars, and dominant practices,
by taking into account the complicated relationships between East
vs. West German, German vs. European, and European vs. American
cinemas; and by paying close attention to the economic and
political conditions of film production and reception during this
little-known period of German film history. John Davidson is
Director of the Program of Film Studies and Associate Professor of
Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University.
His Deterritorializing the New German Cinema appeared in 1999, and
he has published numerous articles on German film as well as
political discourses and literary figures in cinema more generally.
He serves on the editorial board of Studies in European Cinema (UK)
and is currently working on a book project investigating cinema,
labor, and mobility in twentieth-century Germany. Sabine Hake is
the Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture in the Department
of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is
the author of four books: German National Cinema (2002), Popular
Cinema of the Third Reich (2001), The Cinema's Third Machine:
German Writings on Film 1907-1933 (1993), Passions and Deceptions:
The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch (1992), as well as numerous
articles on German film and Weimar culture. Her current book
project deals with urban architecture and mass utopia in Weimar
Berlin.
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