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Description for Rubble Films
paperback. Reveals how Germany rebuilt itself culturally. This book is a close look at German cinema in the immediate postwar era, and a careful examination of its relationship to Allied occupation. It reveals how German film borrowed, both literally and figuratively, from its Nazi past. Num Pages: 248 pages, 20 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPG; APF; HBJD; HBLW3; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 331.
At the end of World War II, Germany was a broken nation. Split in two and occupied by the victorious Allies, it would have to be rebuilt, literally, from the rubble of its own defeat. Volumes of books have been published chronicling its structural and economic rebirth; this unique study reveals how Germany rebuilt itself culturally. Rubble Films is a close look at German cinema in the immediate postwar era, and a careful examination of its relationship to Allied occupation. Shandley reveals how German film borrowed -- both literally and figuratively -- from its Nazi past, and how the occupied ... Read more
At the end of World War II, Germany was a broken nation. Split in two and occupied by the victorious Allies, it would have to be rebuilt, literally, from the rubble of its own defeat. Volumes of books have been published chronicling its structural and economic rebirth; this unique study reveals how Germany rebuilt itself culturally. Rubble Films is a close look at German cinema in the immediate postwar era, and a careful examination of its relationship to Allied occupation. Shandley reveals how German film borrowed -- both literally and figuratively -- from its Nazi past, and how the occupied ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781566398787
SKU
V9781566398787
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Ref
99-50
About Robert Shandley
Robert R. Shandley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Texas A&M University, and editor of Unwilling Germans?: The Goldhagen Debate.
Reviews for Rubble Films
"[Rubble Films] will certainly come to stand as an important book on an unwritten chapter in the history of postwar German cinema... [I]t also contributes to the specific analysis of culture as an apparatus of historical memory in postwar Germany, and does so in illuminating and intriguing ways." -Lisa Saltzman, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College "Rubble Films ... Read more