German postwar films : life and love in the ruins / edited by Wilfried Wilms and William Rasch.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index.

Introduction : Looking again at the rubble / William Rasch -- "When everything falls to pieces" : rubble in German films before the rubble films / Erhard Schütz -- Rubble without a cause : the air war in postwar film / Wilfried Wilms -- A time for ruins / Dagmar Barnouw -- Rubble film as archive of trauma and grief : Wolfgang Lamprecht's Somewhere in Berlin / Anke Pinkert -- The stones begin to speak : the laboring subject in early DEFA documentaries / Brad Prager -- What's new? Allegorical representations of renewal in DEFA's youth films, 1946-1949 / Marc Silberman -- In the ruins of Berlin : A foreign affair / Gerd Gemünden -- Rubble noir / Jennifer Fay -- When Liebe was just a five-letter word : Wolfgang Liebeneiner's Love 47 / Robert G. Moeller -- "Kampf dem Kampf" : aesthetic experimentation and social satire in The ballad of Berlin / Claudia Breger -- Planes, trains, and the occasional car : the rubble film as demobilization film / Jaimey Fisher -- The sound of ruins / Lutz Koepnick.