Dismantling the dream factory
Subtitle: gender, German cinema, and the postwar quest for a new film language
By: Hester Baer.
Series: Film Europa -- v. 9; Film Europa -- v. 9.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781845456054
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Germany; Motion pictures for women -- Germany; Motion picture audiences -- Germany; Women in motion pictures
Notes: "Berghahn on film"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Relegitimating cinema: female spectators and the problem of representation; title: How do you solve a problem like Susanne?: the female gaze in Wolfgang Staudte's The murderers are among us (1946); title: When fantasy meets reality: authorship and stardom in Rudolf Jugert's Film without a title (1948); title: Gendered visions of the German past: Wolfgang Liebeneiner's Love '47 (1949) as woman's film; title: Unsolved mysteries: race, ethnicity, and gender in Helmut Kätner's Epilogue (1950); title: Art on film: representing gender and sexuality in popular cinema; title: "Through her eyes": regendering representation in Willi Forst's The sinner (1951); title: Looking at Heimat: visual pleasure and cinematic realism in Alfons Stummer's The forester of the silver wood (1955); title: Degenerate art?: problems of gender and sexuality in Veit Harlan's Different from you and me (175) (1957); title: Towards the new wave: gender and the critique of popular cinema; title: Pleasurable negotiations: spectatorship and genre in Helmut Kätner's "anti-tearjerker" Engagement in Zurich (1957); title: Sound and spectacle in the Wirtschaftswunder: the critical strategies of Rolf Thiele's The girl Rosemarie (1958); title: Gender and the new wave: Herbert Vesely's The bread of those early years (1962) as transitional film; title: Epilogue: adapting the 1950s: the afterlife of postwar cinema in post-unification popular culture.