German film after Germany : toward a transnational aesthetic / Randall Halle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halle, Randall.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--Germany.

Motion picture industry.

Motion picture industry--Finance.

Coproduction (Motion pictures, television, etc.)--Europe.

Coproduction (Motion pictures, television, etc.).

Noncitizens in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Germany.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is the work of film in the age of transnational production? To answer that question, Randall Halle focuses on the film industry of Germany, one of Europe's largest film markets and one of the world's largest film-producing nations. In the 1990s Germany experienced an extreme transition from a state-subsidized mode of film production that was free of anxious concerns about profit and audience entertainment to a mode dominated by private interest and big capital. At the same time, the European Union began actively drawing together the national markets of Germany and other European nations, sublating their individual significances into a synergistic whole. This book studies these changes broadly, but also focuses on the transformations in their particular national context. It balances film politics and film aesthetics, tracing transformations in financing along with analyses of particular films to describe the effects on the film object itself. Halle concludes that we witness currently the emergence of a new transnational aesthetic, a fundamental shift in cultural production with ramifications for communal identifications, state cohesion, and national economies.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Work of Film in the Age of Transnational Production

1. Apprehending Transnationalism

2. German Film, Aufgehoben: Ensembles of Transnational Cinema

3. The Transnational Aesthetic: Volker Schlondorff, Studio Babelsberg, and Vivendi Universal

4. The Historical Genre and the Transnational Aesthetic

5. Inhabitant, Exhabitant, Cohabitant: Filming Migrants and the Borders of Europe

6. Transfrontier Broadcasting, Transnational Civil Society

Notes

Bibliography

Subject Index

Film Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-228) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613431950

9781283431958

1283431955

9780252091445

0252091442

OCLC:

654670515