UID:
edocfu_9959327625502883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 601 pages) :
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illustrations
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781444345605
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1444345605
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9781444345575
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1444345575
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9781118275740
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1118275748
Content:
A Companion to German Cinema offers a wide-ranging collection of essays demonstrating state-of-play scholarship on German cinema at a time during which cinema studies as well as German cinema have once again begun to flourish. Offers a careful combination of theoretical rigor, conceptual accessibility, and intellectual inclusivenessIncludes essays by well-known writers as well as up-and-coming scholars who take innovative critical approaches to both time-honored and emergent areas in the field, especially regarding race, gender, sexuality, and (trans)nationalism.
Note:
First movement: destabilization. Have dialectic, will travel: the GDR Indianerfilme as critique and radical imaginary / Dennis Broe -- Coming out into socialism: Heiner Carow's third way / David Brandon Dennis / Germany identity, myth, and documentary film / Julia Knight -- Post-reunification cinema: horror, nostalgia, redemption / Anthony Enns -- "Capitalism has no more natural enemies": the Berlin School / David Clarke -- Projecting Heimat: on the regional and the urban in recent cinema / Jennifer Ruth Hosek -- No happily ever after: disembodying gender, destabilizing nation in Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled / Gayatri Devi -- Second movement: dislocation. Views across the Rhine: border poetics in Straub-Huillet's Machorka-Muff (1962) and Lothringen! / Claudia Pummer Ginsberg -- Contested spaces: Kamal Aljafari's transnational Palestinian films / Peter Limbrick -- Fatih Akin's Homecomings / Savaş Arslan -- Lessons in liberation: Fassbinder's Whity at the crossroads of hollywood melodrama and blaxploitation / Priscilla Layne -- Sexploitation film from West Germany / Harald Steinwender and Alexander Zahlten -- A documentarist at the limits of queer: the films of Jochen Hick / Robert M. Gillett -- Models of masculinity in postwar Germany: the Sissi films and the West German Wiederbewaffnungsdebatte / Nadja Krämer -- Crossdressing, remakes, and national stereotypes: the Germany-Hollywood connection / Silke Arnold-De Simine -- Third movement: disidentification. The aesthetics of ethnic cleansing: a historiographic and filmic analysis of Andres Veiel's Balagan / Domenica Vilhotti -- Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse: "feminist re-visions" of a historical controversy / Sally Winkle -- The Baader Oedipus Complex / Vojin Saa Vukadinovic ́-- Dislocations: videograms of a revolution and the search for images / Frances Guerin -- Germany welcomes back its Jews: Go for Zucker! and the women in German debate (aka Wiggie-leaks: a polemical analysis) / Terri Ginsberg -- Screening the German social divide: Aelrun Goette's Die kinder sind tot / David James Prickett -- A negative utopia: Michael Haneke's fragmentary cinema / Tara Forrest.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Companion to German cinema. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 ISBN 9781405194365
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444345605
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