Hester Baer is Associate Professor of German and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where she is also on the faculty of the Film & Media Studies program. She has published widely on German cinema, feminism, and women's writing.

"Baer has written an original critical view of German cinema after WWII - Unique to this study is Baer's attempt to ground her inquiry in gender theory - The result is a book that reopens the era by examining it from a fresh angle. Baer supports this important study with well-chosen stills." * Choice "This is a great book, well grounded in the critical literature and contemporary archival sources. The author has an extraordinary eye for detail in her close readings of the films and a profound understanding of the interplay between the diegetic and extra-diegetic elements that make up the meaning of a given film text, as she ranges from discussion of the use of sound to the marketing strategies employed to sell the films under investigation, all of which is located in a detailed understanding of the broader historical context and the German 'national trauma' of the time." * Scope " - [a] fascinating study - [that] makes a major contribution to a burgeoning field dedicated to the investigation of what was once dismissed." * Monatshefte "...makes a significant and original contribution, is well researched as well as written, and would lend itself conveniently to the teaching of any of these films - [It] bring[s] to bear theories from Anglo-American film studies as well as German cultural studies and history. The result is a felicitous mixture of theory, cultural-historical context, and informed film readings." * Jaimey Fisher, University of California, Davis

• Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Postwar German Cinema Chapter 1. The Female Gaze in The Murderers Are Among Us Chapter 2. Authorship and Stardom in Film Without a Title Chapter 3. Love '47 as Woman's Film Chapter 4. Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Epilogue Chapter 5. Regendering Representation in The Sinner Chapter 6. Visual Pleasure and Cinematic Realism in The Forester of the Silver Wood Chapter 7. Gender and Sexuality in Different From You and Me Chapter 8. Spectatorship and Genre in Engagement in Zurich Chapter 9. Critical Strategies of The Girl Rosemarie Chapter 10. The Bread of Those Early Years as Transitional Film Epilogue: Adapting the 1950s Bibliography Index

Hester Baer is Associate Professor of German and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where she is also on the faculty of the Film & Media Studies program. She has published widely on German cinema, feminism, and women's writing.

"Baer has written an original critical view of German cinema after WWII - Unique to this study is Baer's attempt to ground her inquiry in gender theory - The result is a book that reopens the era by examining it from a fresh angle. Baer supports this important study with well-chosen stills." * Choice "This is a great book, well grounded in the critical literature and contemporary archival sources. The author has an extraordinary eye for detail in her close readings of the films and a profound understanding of the interplay between the diegetic and extra-diegetic elements that make up the meaning of a given film text, as she ranges from discussion of the use of sound to the marketing strategies employed to sell the films under investigation, all of which is located in a detailed understanding of the broader historical context and the German 'national trauma' of the time." * Scope " - [a] fascinating study - [that] makes a major contribution to a burgeoning field dedicated to the investigation of what was once dismissed." * Monatshefte "...makes a significant and original contribution, is well researched as well as written, and would lend itself conveniently to the teaching of any of these films - [It] bring[s] to bear theories from Anglo-American film studies as well as German cultural studies and history. The result is a felicitous mixture of theory, cultural-historical context, and informed film readings." * Jaimey Fisher, University of California, Davis

• Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Postwar German Cinema Chapter 1. The Female Gaze in The Murderers Are Among Us Chapter 2. Authorship and Stardom in Film Without a Title Chapter 3. Love '47 as Woman's Film Chapter 4. Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Epilogue Chapter 5. Regendering Representation in The Sinner Chapter 6. Visual Pleasure and Cinematic Realism in The Forester of the Silver Wood Chapter 7. Gender and Sexuality in Different From You and Me Chapter 8. Spectatorship and Genre in Engagement in Zurich Chapter 9. Critical Strategies of The Girl Rosemarie Chapter 10. The Bread of Those Early Years as Transitional Film Epilogue: Adapting the 1950s Bibliography Index

Hester Baer is Associate Professor of German and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where she is also on the faculty of the Film & Media Studies program. She has published widely on German cinema, feminism, and women's writing.

"Baer has written an original critical view of German cinema after WWII - Unique to this study is Baer's attempt to ground her inquiry in gender theory - The result is a book that reopens the era by examining it from a fresh angle. Baer supports this important study with well-chosen stills." * Choice "This is a great book, well grounded in the critical literature and contemporary archival sources. The author has an extraordinary eye for detail in her close readings of the films and a profound understanding of the interplay between the diegetic and extra-diegetic elements that make up the meaning of a given film text, as she ranges from discussion of the use of sound to the marketing strategies employed to sell the films under investigation, all of which is located in a detailed understanding of the broader historical context and the German 'national trauma' of the time." * Scope " - [a] fascinating study - [that] makes a major contribution to a burgeoning field dedicated to the investigation of what was once dismissed." * Monatshefte "...makes a significant and original contribution, is well researched as well as written, and would lend itself conveniently to the teaching of any of these films - [It] bring[s] to bear theories from Anglo-American film studies as well as German cultural studies and history. The result is a felicitous mixture of theory, cultural-historical context, and informed film readings." * Jaimey Fisher, University of California, Davis

• Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Postwar German Cinema Chapter 1. The Female Gaze in The Murderers Are Among Us Chapter 2. Authorship and Stardom in Film Without a Title Chapter 3. Love '47 as Woman's Film Chapter 4. Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Epilogue Chapter 5. Regendering Representation in The Sinner Chapter 6. Visual Pleasure and Cinematic Realism in The Forester of the Silver Wood Chapter 7. Gender and Sexuality in Different From You and Me Chapter 8. Spectatorship and Genre in Engagement in Zurich Chapter 9. Critical Strategies of The Girl Rosemarie Chapter 10. The Bread of Those Early Years as Transitional Film Epilogue: Adapting the 1950s Bibliography Index