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This is the 1st entire account of Germany's so much enduring movie style, the Heimatfilm, which has provided idyllic adaptations at the concept that "there is not any position like domestic" on the grounds that cinema's early days. Charting the advance of this renowned style over the process a century in a piece trained by means of movie reports, cultural historical past, and social thought, Johannes von Moltke focuses particularly on its heyday within the Fifties, a interval that has been little studied. Questions of what it will probably suggest to name the German state "home" after the catastrophes of worldwide struggle II are anxiously found in those motion pictures, and von Moltke makes use of them as a lens in which to view modern discourses on German nationwide identity.

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