International Adventures
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International Adventures

German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

International Adventures

German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s

About this book

West German cinema of the 1960s is frequently associated with the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers, collectively known by the 1970s as the "New German Cinema." Yet for domestic and international audiences at the time, German cinema primarily meant popular genres such as exotic adventure films, Gothic crime thrillers, westerns, and sex films, which were dismissed by German filmmakers and critics of the 1970s as "Daddy's Cinema."

International Adventures provides the first comprehensive account of these genres, and charts the history of the West German film industry and its main protagonists from the immediate post-war years to its boom period in the 1950s and 1960s. By analyzing film genres in the context of industrial practices, literary traditions, biographical trajectories, and wider cultural and social developments, this book uncovers a forgotten period of German filmmaking that merits reassessment.

International Adventures firmly locates its case studies within the wider dynamic of European cinema. In its study of West German cinema's links and co-operations with other countries including Britain, France, and Italy, the book addresses what is perhaps the most striking phenomenon of 1960s popular film genres: the dispersal and disappearance of markers of national identity in increasingly international narratives and modes of production.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2004
Print ISBN
9781571815392
eBook ISBN
9781782389668
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
German History

Table of contents

  1. International Adventures
  2. CONTENTS
  3. Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
  4. PART I. Historical and Cultural Contexts
  5. Chapter 2. FROM RUBBLE TO PROSPERITY: RECONSTRUCTION OF A NATIONAL FILM INDUSTRY
  6. Chapter 3. FROM NATIONAL TO EUROPEAN CINEMA
  7. Chapter 4. THE DISTRIBUTION SECTOR
  8. Chapter 5. FILM, TELEVISION, AND INTERNATIONALISATION
  9. PART II. Case-Studies
  10. Chapter 6. ARTUR BRAUNER’S CCC: REMIGRATION, POPULAR GENRES, AND INTERNATIONAL ASPIRATIONS
  11. Chapter 7. IMAGINING ENGLAND: THE WEST GERMAN EDGAR WALLACE SERIES
  12. Chapter 8. FROM SOHO TO SILVERLAKE: THE KARLMAYWESTERNS
  13. Chapter 9. BEYOND RESPECTABILITY: B-FILM PRODUCTION IN THE 1960S
  14. Chapter 10. CONCLUSION:THE END OF AN ERA?
  15. Appendix
  16. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  17. INDEX