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'.
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Detroit, Mich. :
Wayne State University Press,
©2003.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.