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Film Front Weimar : Representations of the First World War in German Films from the Weimar Period (1919-1933).
Title:
Film Front Weimar : Representations of the First World War in German Films from the Weimar Period (1919-1933).
Author:
Kester, Bernadette.
ISBN:
9789048505197
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (331 pages)
Series:
Film Culture in Transition
Contents:
Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The aftermath of the First World War -- The War Experience -- Research into war films: film historians -- Siegfried Kracauer -- Cultural historians: Eksteins, Winter and Mosse -- Carrying out the research -- Press sources -- Chapter arrangement -- Chapter 1: 'Lehrreich und amüsant' - Historical films in the period 1896-1933 -- German film industry during the First World War -- Bufa and Ufa -- Screening the war -- Film in the Weimar Republic -- Censorship -- The military in film -- From relative stability to crisis -- Chapter 2: 'Die Legende von der Unschuld' - Films about the run-up to the war, especially 1914. Die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand -- The Weimar Republic and the Kriegsschulddebatte -- 1914. Die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand -- 'Zensur - der böse Engel' -- Emil Ludwig and the Kriegsschuldfrage -- Der Doppelmord von Sarajewo -- Brandstifter Europas -- Critical reception of 1914 -- Political context -- Chapter 3: 'Das Dokumentarische gewinnt die Oberhand' - Archival footage and constructions in war films -- Der Weltkrieg, an official outlook on the war -- The beginning of the war -- The battles of Liège, Tannenberg and the Marne River -- The battle of Ypres, the myth of Langemarck -- The battles at Verdun and the Somme -- Fort Douaumont at Verdun -- The battle at the Somme -- Somme and Douaumont, monuments for the unknown soldier -- Tannenberg -- History and tragedy -- Tannenberg without Von Hindenburg -- Chapter 4: 'Wenn wir Helden wären, wären wir schon längst daheim' - Realism and anti-war tendencies in four films -- Literary context: war literature -- Namenlose Helden -- Westfront 1918 -- The war scene -- Cinematography -- Die andere Seite -- Niemandsland -- National identities -- The reviews -- Comradeship, heroism and nationality.

Chapter 5: 'Auf dem Meere, da ist der Mann noch etwas wert' - Films about the German navy during the First -- The surface ships -- Unsere Emden and Kreuzer Emden -- Criticism, mythologisation and intertextuality -- Scapa Flow and the navy rebellion -- The U-boat films -- Die versunkene Flotte and U9 Weddigen -- Critical reviews -- Drei Tage auf Leben und Tod -- Morgenrot -- The press -- Chapter 6: 'Neid, Leid, Tränen - das ist der Krieg' - Gender and war films -- Das deutsche Mutterherz and Deutsche Frauen - Deutsche Treue -- Motherhood and fatherland -- Suffering and love in other war films -- Companionship and betrayal: Ich hatt' einen Kameraden -- Husbands coming back home: Feldgrau and Heimkehr -- Epilogue -- The various narratives -- Myths -- Critical assessment -- Complex representations -- Notes -- Credits Weimar War Films -- Archives and Libraries -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.
Abstract:
Describes Germany's experience of World War I as depicted in the cinematography of the Weimar era.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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