This volume offers a cultural, aesthetic, and critical reappraisal of German 'rubble films' produced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and constructs their meaning in a historical context.

Autorentext

WILFRIED WILMS is Associate Professor of German Studies, University of Denver, USA.
WILLIAM RASCH is Professor of German Studies, Indiana University, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction: Looking Again at the Rubble; W.Rasch 'When Everything Falls to Pieces' Rubble in German Films Before the Rubble Films; E.Schütz Rubble Without a Cause: The Air War in Postwar Film; W.Wilms A Time for Ruins; D.Barnouw Rubble Film as Archive of Trauma and Grief: Wolfgang Lamprecht's Somewhere in Berlin; A.Pinkert The Stones Begin to Speak: The Laboring Subject in Early DEFA Documentaries; B.Prager What's New? Allegorical Representations of Renewal in DEFA's Youth Films, 1946-1949; M.Silberman In the Ruins of Berlin: A Foreign Affair; G.Gemünden Rubble Noir; J.Fay When Liebe was Just a Five-Letter Word: Wolfgang Liebeneiner's Love 47; R.G.Moeller 'Kampf dem Kampf': Aesthetic Experimentation and Social Satire in The Ballad of Berlin; C.Bregerb Planes, Trains, and the Occasional Car: The Rubble Film as De-Mobilization Film; J.Fisher The Sound of Ruins; L.Koepnick