1POPULAR CINEMA

CONTENTS
Preface vii
1. Popular Cinema, National Cinema, Nazi Cinema:
A Definition of Terms 1
2. Made in 1933: German-Jewish Filmmakers and the
Forced Coordination of the Industry 23
3. Cinema, Set Design, and the Domestication of Modernism 46
4. At the Movies: Film Audiences and the Problem of Spectatorship 68
5. Stars: Heinz Rühmann and the Performance of the Ordinary 87
6. Detlef Sierck and Schlußakkord (Final Chord, 1936):
A Case Study of Film Authorship 107
7. The Foreign and the Familiar:
On German-American Film Relations, 1933–1940 128
8. The Annexation of an Imaginary City:
The Topos “Vienna” and the Wien-Film AG 149
9. The Power of Thought:
Redefining Popular Cinema between Realism and Illusionism 172
10. A Question of Representation:
Working Women and Wartime Cinema 189
11. The Legacies of the Past in the Cinema of Postwar Reconstruction 210
Notes 231
Select Bibliography 263
Index of German Titles and Names 267