Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1: History, Utopia, and the Social Construction of Happiness: The Historical Musical 17
7. 2: Mapping German Identity: The Foreign Adventure Film 65
8. 3: The Celluloid War: The Home-Front Film 119
9. 4: Discontented Domesticity: The Melodrama 161
10. 5: The Forbidden Desires of Everyday Life: The Problem Film 207
11. Epilogue 259
12. Works Cited 265
13. Index 287