TY - GEN T1 - Dismantling the dream factory : gender, German cinema, and the postwar quest for a new film language T2 - Film Europa ; A1 - Baer, Hester LA - English PP - New York PB - Berghahn Books YR - 2009 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn961882790 AB - 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 throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer reassesses this period, looking in particular at how the attempt to "dismantle the dream factory" of Nazi entertainment cinema resulted in a new cinematic language which developed as a result of the changing audience demographic. In an era when female viewers comprised 70 percent of cinema audiences a "women's cinema" emerged, which sought to. OP - 304 CN - PN1993.5.G3 SN - 9781845459451 SN - 1845459458 SN - 9781845456054 SN - 184545605X KW - Motion pictures : Germany : History : 20th century. KW - Motion pictures : Social aspects : Germany : History : 20th century. KW - Motion pictures for women : Germany : History : 20th century. KW - Motion picture audiences : Germany : History : 20th century. KW - Women in motion pictures : History : 20th century. KW - Cinéma : Allemagne : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Cinéma : Aspect social : Allemagne : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Films de femme : Allemagne : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Cinéma : Publics : Allemagne : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Femmes au cinéma : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - ART : Film & Video. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : Reference. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : History & Criticism. KW - Motion picture audiences KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion pictures for women KW - Motion pictures : Social aspects KW - Women in motion pictures KW - Germany KW - Film history, theory & criticism. KW - Gender studies, gender groups. KW - Germany. KW - Performing Arts. KW - 1900-1999 KW - History ER -