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The collapse of the conventional : German film and its politics at the turn of the twenty-first century / edited by Jaimey Fisher and Brad Prager

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Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 431 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Fisher, Jaimey and Prager, Brad, 1971-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Introduction / Jaimey Fisher and Brad Prager -- Imitation of life: the aesthetics of Agfacolor in recent historical cinema / Jennifer M. Kapczynski -- Public viewing: soccer patriotism and post-cinema / Lutz Koepnick -- More war stories: Stalingrad and downfall / Elisabeth Krimmer -- Neofeminist mütterfilm? the emotional politics of Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse / Anna M. Parkinson -- Dresden: the return of history as soap / Wilfried Wilms -- Terrains vagues: landscapes of unification in Oskar Roehler's No place to go / Johannes von Moltke -- German historical film as production trend: European heritage cinema and melodrama in The lives of others / Jaimey Fisher -- A world of objects: consumer culture in filmic reconstructions of the GDR / Michael D. Richardson -- Playing hide-and-seek with tradition: games, aesthetic form, and social critique in German cinema following the Wende / John E. Davidson -- Imaging Germany: the (political) cinema of Christian Petzold / Marco Abel -- Christoph Hochhäusler's This very moment: the Berlin school and the politics of spatial aesthetics in the German-Polish borderlands / Kristin Kopp -- Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei: Edukating the post-left generation / Roger F. Cook -- The global elsewhere: Ursula Biemann's Multimedia countergeography / Barbara Mennel -- Glimpses of freedom: the reemergence of utopian longing in German cinema / Brad Prager.
Summary
""Fisher and Prager have assembled a significant group of essays by the emerging generation of German cinema experts in the US. The anthology is the first serious attempt to retell the history of the New German Cinema and the c̀onsensus' cinema of the 1900s through the lens of contemporary, post-2000 films in all their diversity. Film scholars, students of the German cinema, and the general reading public will discover here why D̀eutsches Kino' is once again in the limelight."--Marc Silberman, chair of the Department of German at the University of Wisconsin, Madison" ""The Collapse of the Conventional offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary German cinema and is bound to stimulate new debates about the legacies of New German Cinema and its politics of the aesthetic. A must for everyone interested in German cinema and Contemporary culture."--Sabine Hake, Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin" ""Bringing together many of the most important scholars of German film, this hugely significant collection offers a fascinating and subtle account of the contours of the political in the post-Wall cinematic landscape."--Paul Cooke, professor of German cultural studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds"--Jacket.
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ISBN
9780814336885 (electronic bk.)
0814336884 (electronic bk.)
9780814333778
081433377X
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
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