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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
- Contemporary approaches to film and television series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Germany--History--21st century.
- Motion pictures.
- Politics in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects--Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (440 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Analyzes a diverse body of films and investigates the renaissance that has taken place in German cinema since the turn of the twenty-first century.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814336885
- 0814336884
- OCLC:
- 777565722
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