German Ways of War : : The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films / / Jaimey Fisher.

German Ways of War deploys theories of space, mobility, and affect to investigate how war films realize their political projects. Analyzing films across the decades, from the 1910s to 2000s, German Ways of War addresses an important lacuna in media studies: while scholars have tended to focus on the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:War Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (226 p.) :; 41 b&w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Land into Landscape, Landscape into Territory : Transformations of Space in German War Cinema, 1914–1918 (The Diary of Dr. Hart, 1917/1918; Sword and Hearth, 1916; Inexpiable, 1917)
  • 3 Landscapes of Death and Memories of the Human : Distance, Scale, and the Double Map of the First “War-Sound- Film” (Westfront 1918, 1930; Camaraderie, 1931)
  • 4 Combat Films and Their Aerial Spaces under the Nazi Regime (Medal of Honor, 1938; Squadron Lützow, 1941; Above Everything in the World, 1941)
  • 5 Out of the War Mode: Demobilizing the War Genre in the Postwar Rubble Film (Request Concert, 1940; The Great Love, 1942; Ways into Twilight, 1949; The Sons of Mr. Gaspary, 1948; Birds of Migration, 1946/1947)
  • 6 War in the Reconstructive 1950s : Genre, Espionage, and Cold War Subjectivities in the War Film (Canaris, 1955; The Fox of Paris, 1957; Rommel Calls Cairo, 1959)
  • 7 Conclusion: Affective Geographies of the Fading Genre (The Boat, 1981; Downfall, 2004)
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author