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visual style, narration and identity in German Post-War cinema
Examines the so-called rubble films, usually seen as simplistic texts reaffirming "good Germans during bad times" views, finding in some of them visual and narrative romantic discourse which provokes critical discussion on German national identity in the wake of the Third Reich
The neoformalist approach : questions of form and style. Film as an aesthetic systemThe result of construction : meaning -- German romanticism : the stylistic origin of rubble films. Leading stylistic and narrative romantic devices -- Ruins and fragment : a romantic discourse on crisis -- The romantic discourse in a selection of rubble films. Rubble films : common features and main differences -- The romantic discourse -- The murderers are among us (1946) : a break with Nazi cinema? -- Film without a name (1947/48) : irony shall help us! -- The Blum affair (1948) : Engel's critical view on the past -- The 'last' illusion (1948/49) : double views and mistaken perception -- Second hand destiny (1949) : the demonic bourgeois -- The lost (1950/51) : no escape? -- Conclusion.