Table of Contents

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Postwar German Cinema

Chapter 1. The Female Gaze in The Murderers Are Among Us
Chapter 2. Authorship and Stardom in Film Without a Title
Chapter 3. Love ’47 as Woman’s Film
Chapter 4. Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Epilogue
Chapter 5. Regendering Representation in The Sinner
Chapter 6. Visual Pleasure and Cinematic Realism in The Forester of the Silver Wood
Chapter 7. Gender and Sexuality in Different From You and Me
Chapter 8. Spectatorship and Genre in Engagement in Zurich
Chapter 9. Critical Strategies of The Girl Rosemarie
Chapter 10. The Bread of Those Early Years as Transitional Film

Epilogue: Adapting the 1950s

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Hester Baer is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has published widely on postwar and contemporary German cinema, women's literature, and feminism.

Reviews

“…[a] fascinating study…[that] makes  a major contribution to a burgeoning field dedicated to the investigation of what was once dismissed.”  ·  Monatshefte “...makes a significant and original contribution, is well researched as well as written, and would lend itself conveniently to the teaching of any of these films…[It] bring[s] to bear theories from Anglo-American film studies as well as German cultural studies and history. The result is a felicitous mixture of theory, cultural-historical context, and informed film readings.”  ·  Jaimey Fisher, University of California, Davis