An insightful analysis of German film in the immediate postwar era.

The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film thr

A history of German film dealing with individual films as works of art has long been needed. Existing histories tend to treat cinema as an economic rather than

This volume offers a cultural, aesthetic, and critical reappraisal of German 'rubble films' produced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and cons

In the aftermath of total war and unconditional surrender, Germans found themselves receiving instruction from their American occupiers. It was not a convention