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The use and abuse of cinema : German legacies from the Weimar era to the present / Eric Rentschler.
LIBRA PN1993.5.G3 R43 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rentschler, Eric, author.
- Series:
- Film and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Germany--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Germany.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 451 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Introduction: History lessons and courses in time
- Pt. 1. Critical venues. How a social critic became a formative theorist
- Hunger for experience, spectatorship, and the seventies
- The passenger and the critical critic
- The limits of aesthetic resistance
- Springtime for UFA
- Pt. 2. Serials and cycles. Mountains and modernity
- Too lovely to be true
- The management of shattered identity
- After the war, before the wall
- Pt. 3. From Oberhausen to Bitburg. Remembering not to forget
- Many ways to fight a battle
- How American is it?
- The use and abuse of memory
- A cinema of citation
- The declaration of independents
- Pt. 4. Postwall prospects. An archaeology of the Berlin school
- The surveillance camera's quarry
- Heritages and histories
- Life in the shadows
- Two trips to the Berlinale.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231073622
- 0231073623
- 9780231073639
- 0231073631
- OCLC:
- 892728323
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