UID:
almahu_9949068899402882
Format:
1 online resource (320 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
90-485-5195-1
Series Statement:
Film Culture in Transition
Content:
This book presents a new history of German film from 1980-2010, a period that witnessed rapid transformations, including intensified globalization, a restructured world economy, geopolitical realignment, and technological change, all of which have affected cinema in fundamental ways. Rethinking the conventional periodization of German film history, Baer posits 1980-rather than 1989-as a crucial turning point for German cinema's embrace of a new market orientation and move away from the state-sponsored film culture that characterized both DEFA and the New German Cinema. Reading films from East, West, and post-unification Germany together, Baer argues that contemporary German cinema is characterized most strongly by its origins in and responses to advanced capitalism. Informed by a feminist approach and in dialogue with prominent theories of contemporary film, the book places a special focus on how German films make visible the neoliberal recasting of gender and national identities around the new millennium.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction: Making Neoliberalism Visible --
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1. German Cinema and the Neoliberal Turn : The End of the National-Cultural Film Project --
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2. Producing German Cinema for the World : Global Blockbusters from Location Germany --
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3. From Everyday Life to the Crisis Ordinary : Films of Ordinary Life and the Resonance of DEFA --
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4. Future Feminism : Political Filmmaking and the Resonance of the West German Feminist Film Movement --
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5. The Failing Family: Changing Constellations of Gender, Intimacy, and Genre --
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6. Refiguring National Cinema in Films about Labour, Money, and Debt --
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Conclusion: German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 94-6372-733-7
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1515/9789048551958
URL:
Rezension
(H-Soz-Kult)
