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Johannes von Moltke

    Johannes von Moltke è un eminente studioso e critico letterario il cui lavoro approfondisce il cinema tedesco e le sue dimensioni culturali. La sua erudizione indaga come temi di identità e appartenenza, in particolare il concetto di 'Heimat', siano articolati attraverso i media visivi. Attraverso un'analisi acuta di opere cinematografiche, scopre i modi complessi in cui il cinema modella e riflette le nozioni sociali di casa e appartenenza. Il suo approccio offre ai lettori una comprensione sfumata dell'interazione tra cinema, cultura ed esperienza vissuta.

    Rudolf Arnheim
    No Place Like Home
    • No Place Like Home

      Locations of Heimat in German Cinema

      • 318pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      This is the first comprehensive account of Germany's most enduring film genre, the Heimatfilm, which has offered idyllic variations on the idea that "there is no place like home" since cinema's early days. Charting the development of this popular genre over the course of a century in a work informed by film studies, cultural history, and social theory, Johannes von Moltke focuses in particular on its heyday in the 1950s, a period that has been little studied. Questions of what it could possibly mean to call the German nation "home" after the catastrophes of World War II are anxiously present in these films, and von Moltke uses them as a lens through which to view contemporary discourses on German national identity.

      No Place Like Home2005