No Place Like Home : Locations of Heimat in German Cinema /

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This is the first comprehensive account of Germany's most enduring film genre, the Heimatfilm, which has offered idyllic variations on the idea that "there is no place like home" since cinema's early days. Charting the development of this popular genre over the course of a centur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Von Moltke, Johannes, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Heimatfilme.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Cinema > Allemagne > Histoire.
Heimatfilm > Histoire et critique.
Motion pictures > Germany > History.
Heimatfilme > History and criticism.
Germany.
Films.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Locating Heimat; 1. Evergreens: The Place of Heimat in German Film History; 2. Therapeutic Topographies: From Ludwig Ganghofer to the Nazi Heimatfilm; 3. Launching the Heimatfilmwelle: From the Trümmerfilm to Grün ist die Heide; 4. Heimat/Horror/History: Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab; 5. Nostalgic Modernization: Locating Home in the Economic Miracle; 6. Expellees, Emigrants, Exiles: Spectacles of Displacement; 7. Collectivizing the Local: DEFA and the Question of Heimat in the 1950s.

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