Rubble, Ruins, and Romanticism
Subtitle: Visual Style, Narration and Identity in German Post-War Cinema
Publisher: Transcript Verlag; Transcript
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9783837621839
Subjects: Motion pictures, germany; Motion pictures, history
Description: Examines the so-called rubble films, usually seen as simplistic texts reaffirming "good Germans during bad times" views, finding in some of them visual and narrative romantic discourse which provokes critical discussion on German national identity in the wake of the Third Reich.