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Christian Petzold / Jaimey Fisher.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.P467 F57 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, Jaimey, author.
- Series:
- Contemporary film directors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petzold, Christian, 1960---Criticism and interpretation.
- Petzold, Christian.
- Petzold, Christian, 1960---Interviews.
- Petzold, Christian, 1960-.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- In eleven feature films across two decades, Christian Petzold has established himself as the most critically celebrated director in contemporary Germany. The best-known and most influential member of the Berlin School, Petzold's career reflects the trajectory of German film from 1970s New German Cinema to more popular fare in the 1990s and back again to critically engaged and politically committed filmmaking. His combination of critical celebration and popular success underscores Petzolds singular cinematic achievement: the deliberate and shrewd negotiation of art cinema and popular Hollywood genres. In the first book-length study on Petzold in English, Jaimey Fisher frames Petzold's cinema at the intersection of international art cinema and sophisticated genre cinema. This approach places his work in the context of global cinema and invites comparisons to the work of directors like Pedro Almodovar and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who repeatedly deploy and reconfigure genre cinema to their own ends. These generic aspects constitute a cosmopolitan gesture in Petzold's work as he interprets and elaborates on cult genre films and popular genres, including horror, film noir, and melodrama. Fisher explores these popular genres while injecting them with themes like terrorism, globalization, and immigration, central issues for European art cinema. The volume also includes an extended original interview with the director about his work. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- A ghostly archeology: the arthouse-genre cinema of Christian Petzold
- An interview with Christian Petzold
- Filmography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252037986
- 0252037987
- 9780252079504
- 0252079507
- OCLC:
- 841186973
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