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13. The Restructuring of the West German Film Industry in the 1950s

© 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

© 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

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  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. 1. The Question of German Guilt and the “German Student”: Politicizing the Postwar University in Kortner’s Der Ruf and von Wangenheim’s Und wieder 48! 10
  5. 2. Returning Home: The Orientalist Spectacle of Fritz Lang’s Der Tiger von Eschnapur and Das indische Grabmal 28
  6. 3. The Passenger: Ambivalences of National Identity and Masculinity in the Star Persona of Peter van Eyck 44
  7. 4. Helmut Käutner’s Epilog: Das Geheimnis der Orplid and the West German Detective Film of the 195 59
  8. 5. Location Heimat: Tracking Refugee Images, from DEFA to the Heimatfilm 74
  9. 6. “Great Truths and Minor Truths”: Kurt Maetzig’s Ernst Thälmann Films, the Antifascism Myth, and the Politics of Biography in the German Democratic Republic 91
  10. 7. The First DEFA Fairy Tales: Cold War Fantasies of the 1950s 106
  11. 8. Visualizing the Enemy: Representations of the “Other Germany” in Documentaries Produced by the FRG and GDR in the 1950s 120
  12. 9. The Treatment of the Past: Geza Radvanyi’s Der Arzt von Stalingrad and the West German War Film 137
  13. 10. Film und Frau and the Female Spectator of 1950s West German Cinema 151
  14. 11. Reterritorializing Enjoyment in the Adenauer Era: Robert A. Stemmle’s Toxi 166
  15. 12. Allegories of Management: Norbert Schultze’s Sound Track for Das Mädchen Rosemarie 180
  16. 13. The Restructuring of the West German Film Industry in the 1950s 194
  17. 14. The Other “German” Cinema 210
  18. Works Cited 223
  19. Filmography 236
  20. Notes on Contributors 245
  21. Index 248
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