German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism / Hester Baer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baer, Hester, Author.

Series:

Film culture in transition

Film Culture in Transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Germany--History and criticism.

Motion pictures.

Neoliberalism in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book presents a new history of German film from 1980-2010, a period that witnessed rapid transformations, including intensified globalization, a restructured world economy, geopolitical realignment, and technological change, all of which have affected cinema in fundamental ways. Rethinking the conventional periodization of German film history, Baer posits 1980-rather than 1989-as a crucial turning point for German cinema's embrace of a new market orientation and move away from the state-sponsored film culture that characterized both DEFA and the New German Cinema. Reading films from East, West, and post-unification Germany together, Baer argues that contemporary German cinema is characterized most strongly by its origins in and responses to advanced capitalism. Informed by a feminist approach and in dialogue with prominent theories of contemporary film, the book places a special focus on how German films make visible the neoliberal recasting of gender and national identities around the new millennium.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Making Neoliberalism Visible

1. German Cinema and the Neoliberal Turn : The End of the National-Cultural Film Project

2. Producing German Cinema for the World : Global Blockbusters from Location Germany

3. From Everyday Life to the Crisis Ordinary : Films of Ordinary Life and the Resonance of DEFA

4. Future Feminism : Political Filmmaking and the Resonance of the West German Feminist Film Movement

5. The Failing Family: Changing Constellations of Gender, Intimacy, and Genre

6. Refiguring National Cinema in Films about Labour, Money, and Debt

Conclusion: German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

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ISBN:

1-04-077956-5

1-003-69660-0

90-485-5195-1

9781003696605

OCLC:

1242868829