This anthology offers an account of German cinema in the fifties, focusing on popular genres, famous stars and dominant practices, taking into account the complicated relationships between East and West Germany, and by paying attention to the economic and political conditions of film production and reception during this period.
"This book takes the story of the New German Cinema beyond its strictly German context to show its relation to the international constellations of the Cold War and postcolonial politics. After a reevaluation of the political and aesthetic atmosphere of the 1950s and 1960s. John E. Davidson looks at the ways in which conceptions of "the German" are deployed in important works through the two generations that followed."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved