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books:

Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity After Hitler
Heide Fehrenbach

University of North Carolina Press, 1995

Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she explores the complex political uses of film?and the meanings attributed to film representation and spectatorship?during a period of abrupt transition to democracy. According to Fehrenbach, the process of national redefinition made cinema and cinematic ...

Transactions, Transgressions, Tranformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan

Berghahn Books, 2000

This study focuses on what has been the U.S.''s most controversial export in the 20th century - American culture. It examines the reception of American culture, goods and symbols, in other countries and analyses the concept of Americanization.'

Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America

1 review
Heide Fehrenbach

Princeton University Press, 2007

Incredibly Interesting
I have always been mystified by the apparent hypocrisy in the way America fought WWII, ostensibly to preserve democracy in the world and rid it of a racist tyranny, while at the same time remaining blissfully unaware of its own deep problems with race. Ms. Fehrenbach fills in some of the missing links through her examination of the role of the US in occupied Germany in helping to reshape the old ...