The demise of the New German Cinema and the return of popular cinema since the 1990s have led to a renewed interest in the postwar years and the complicated relationship between East and West German cinema in particular. A survey of the 1950s, as offered here for the first time, is therefore long overdue. Moving beyond the contempt for "Papa's Kino" and the nostalgia for the fifties found in much of the existing literature, this anthology explores new uncharted territories, traces hidden connections, discovers unknown treasures, and challenges conventional interpretations. Informed by cultural studies, gender studies, and the study of popular cinema, this anthology offers a more complete account by focusing on popular genres, famous stars, and dominant practices, by taking into account the complicated relationships between East vs. West German, German vs. European, and European vs. American cinemas; and by paying close attention to the economic and political conditions of film production and reception during this little-known period of German film history.

John Davidson is Director of the Program of Film Studies and Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University. HisDeterritorializing the New German Cinema appeared in 1999, and he has published numerous articles on German film as well as political discourses and literary figures in cinema more generally. He serves on the editorial board ofStudies in European Cinema (UK) and is currently working on a book project investigating cinema, labor, and mobility in twentieth-century Germany.

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Introduction

Chapter 1. The Question of German Guilt and the German Student: Politicizing the Postwar University in KortnersDer Ruf and von WangenheimsUnd wiederJaimey Fisher

Chapter 2. Returning Home: The Orientalist Spectacle of Fritz LangsDer Tiger von Eschnapur andDas indische GrabmalBarbara Mennel

Chapter 3. The Passenger: Ambivalences of National Identity and Masculinity in the Star Persona of Peter van EyckTim Bergfelder

Chapter 4. Helmut KäutnersEpilog: Das Geheimnis der Orplid and the West German Detective Film of the 1950sYogini Joglekar

Chapter 5. Location Heimat: Tracking Refugee Images, from DEFA to the HeimatfilmJohannes von Moltke

Chapter 6. "Great Truths and Minor Truths": Kurt MaetzigsErnst Thälmann Films, the Antifascism Myth, and the Politics of Biography in the German Democratic RepublicRussel Lemmons

Chapter 7. The First DEFA Fairy Tales: Cold War Fantasies of the 1950sMarc Silberman

Chapter 8. Visualizing the Enemy: Representations of the Other Germany in Documentaries Produced by the FRG and GDR in the 1950sMatthias Steinle

Chapter 9. The Treatment of the Past: Geza RadvanyisDer Arzt von Stalingrad and the West German War FilmJennifer M. Kapczynski

Chapter 10. Filmund Frau and the Female Spectator of 1950s West German CinemaHester Baer

Chapter 11. Reterritorializing Enjoyment in the Adenauer Era: Robert A. StemmlesToxiAngelica Fenner

Chapter 12. Allegories of Management: Norbert Schultzes Sound Track forDas Mädchen RosemarieLarson Powell

Chapter 13. The Restructuring of the West German Film Industry in the 1950sKnut Hickethier

Chapter 14. The Other "German" CinemaMary Wauchope

Works Cited Filmography Notes on Contributors Index