International Adventures

German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-57181-538-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 574 g

Reihe: Film Europa

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bergfelder, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

PART I: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS

Chapter 2. From Rubble to Prosperity: Reconstruction of a National Film Industry

Chapter 3. From National to European Cinema

Chapter 4. The Distribution Sector

Chapter 5. Film, Television, and Internationalisation

PART II: CASE-STUDIES

Chapter 6. Artur Brauner’s CCC: Remigration, Popular Genres, and International Aspirations

Chapter 7. Imagining England: the West German Edgar Wallace Series

Chapter 8. From Soho to Silverlake: the Karl May Westerns

Chapter 9. Beyond Respectability: B-Film Production in the 1960s

Chapter 10. Conclusion: the End of an Era?

Appendix: Filmography of 1960s Genre Cycles

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bergfelder, Tim
Tim Bergfelder is Head of Film Studies at the University of Southampton. He has published widely on German and European cinema, and is co-editor of The German Cinema Book (2002) and The Titanic in Myth and Memory (2004).