A companion to German cinema / edited by Terri Ginsberg, Andrea Mensch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ginsberg, Terri.

Mensch, Andrea

Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.

Series:

The Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas

[The Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Germany.

Motion pictures.

Germany.

Physical Description:

xiv, 601 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Series from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.

ISBN:

1405194367

9781405194365

OCLC:

758844657

Publisher Number:

99948097961