No Place Like Home by Johannes Von Moltke
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 century in a work informed by film studies, cultural history, and social theory, Johannes von Moltke focuses in particular on its heyday in the 1950s, a period that has been little studied. Questions of what it could possibly mean to call the German nation "home" after the catastrophes of World War II are anxiously present in these films, and von Moltke uses them as a lens through which to view contemporary discourses on German national identity.
Johannes von Moltke is Associate Professor of German and Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520244115 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520244117 |
| Title | No Place Like Home |
| Author | Johannes Von Moltke |
| Series | Weimar And Now: German Cultural Criticism Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2005-09-06 |
| Number of pages | 318 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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