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[email protected] Raee, Gender and Nation: The Cultural Construction of Identity within 1990s German Cinema Dickon Copsey PhD Thesis Department of German, University of Glasilow (D Dickon Copsey, 26 Ih November 2004 April, 2004 ii Abstract (674words) The literary cultural paradigm, which has dominated German studies throughout its history, has been equally significant in the writing of German film history. Drawing upon an idealist philosophical tradition and basedupon apparently objective qualitative judgements which assess film in terms of its intellectual and artistic merits, this higb/low cultural paradigm has bad substantial impact on the study of popular German cinema within German film studies. Historically, when treated at all, such popular cinematic texts have tended to fall victim to the 'pessimistic prognostics of the Frankfurt School' (Bergfelder 1987,7). More recently, however, there have been attemptsto redressthis imbalanceand include popular cinematic genresin the critical appraisalof Germancinema.