Light motives : German popular film in perspective
Critics rarely associate popular film with German cinema, despite the international success of films including Das Boot and Run Lola Run. The essays here re-examine German popular film production along with larger cultural, historical and political meanings suggested by the term 'popular'
Print Book, English, ©2003
Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Mich., ©2003
Aufsatzsammlung
xxvi, 442 pages ; 24 cm
9780814330449, 9780814330456, 0814330444, 0814330452
51223698
From Ernst Lubitsch to Joe May : challenging Kracauer's demonology with Weimar popular film / Christian Rogowski
Regulating hidden pleasures and "modern" identities : imagined female spectators, early German popular cinema, and The oyster princess (1919) / Janet McCabe
The carnival of humiliation : sex, spectacle, and self-reflexivity in E.A. Dupont's Variety (1925) / Richard W. McCormick
"Postcards from the edge" : education to tourism in the German mountain film / Nancy P. Nenno
From "Mr. M" to "Mr Murder" : Peter Lorre and the actor in exile / Gerd Gemünden
The heroine of Fascist virtue? Kristina Söderbaum in Veit Harlan's The sacrifice (1943) / Antje Ascheid
Placing Green is the heath (1951) : spatial politics and emergent West German identity / Alasdair King
Sexual reorientations : homosexuality versus the postwar German man in Veit Harlan's Different from you and me (175) (1957) / Alison Guenther-Pal
Negotiating the popular and the avant garde : the failure of Herbert Vesely's The bread of those early years (1962) / Hester Baer
Exotic thrills and bedroom manuals : West German B-film production in the 1960s / Tim Bergfelder
The politics of the popular : Trace of the stones (1966/89) and the discourse on stardom in the GDR cinema / Stefan Soldovieri
Beleaguered under the sea : Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot (1981) as a German Hollywood film / Brad Prager
Crime and the cynical solution : Black comedy, critique, and the spirit of self-concern in recent German film / John E. Davidson
Unification horror : queer desire and uncanny visions / Randall Halle
Picture-perfect war : an analysis of Joseph Vilsmaier's Stalingrad (1993) / Robert C. Reimer
Fantasizing integration and escape in the post-unification road movie / Elizabeth Mittman
"Honor your German masters" : history, memory, and national identity in Joseph Vilsmaier's Comedian harmonists (1997) / Lutz Koepnick
Angst takes a holiday in Doris Dörrie's Am I beautiful? (1998) / Margaret McCarthy
You can run, but you can't hide : transcultural filmmaking in Run Lola run (1998) / Christine Haase