Rubble Films

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Dismantling the Dream Factory: The Film Industry in Berubbled Germany 2. Coming Home through Rubble Canyons: The Murderers Are among Us and Generic Convention 3. It's a Wonderful Reich: Private Innocence and Public Guilt 4. The Sword That Smote You: Jewish Filmmakers and the Visual Reconstruction of Jews in German Film 5. The Trouble with Rubble: DEFA's Social Problem Films 6. Comedic Redemption and the End of Rubble Film Discourse Conclusion: The Vanishing Rubble Film in Postwar Historiography Notes Selected Bibliography Filmography Index

"His study deftly combines descriptive and analytic treatments of individual films, with a cogent reconstruction of their historical context." German History "[Rubble Films] will certainly come to stand as an important book on an unwritten chapter in the history of postwar German cinema... [I]t also contributes to the specific analysis of culture as an apparatus of historical memory in postwar Germany, and does so in illuminating and intriguing ways." --Lisa Saltzman, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College "Rubble Films is a deft and perceptive study of the most overlooked period in German film history. Superbly researched and written, this complex tale of German film culture illuminates, at times brilliantly, the much larger story of East and West Germany in the shadow of World War II." --Timothy Corrigan, author of New German Film: The Displaced Image and The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History "A primary strength of the book is its breadth: Shandley provides a useful survey of the rubble film that addresses a wide range of genres & in doing so, he never loses sight of his analysis of the representation of history in these films." Colloquia Germanica