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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139740703321

Titolo

A companion to German cinema / / edited by Terri Ginsberg, Andrea Mensch ; contributors Savas Arslan [and twenty one others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-78268-465-4

1-283-40760-4

9786613407603

1-118-27574-8

1-4443-4560-5

1-4443-4557-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (617 p.)

Collana

Wiley-Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas

Disciplina

791.430943

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

First movement: destabilization. Have dialectic, will travel: the GDR Indianerfilme as critique and radical imaginary / Dennis Broe -- Coming out into socialism: Heiner Carow's third way / David Brandon Dennis / Germany identity, myth, and documentary film / Julia Knight -- Post-reunification cinema: horror, nostalgia, redemption / Anthony Enns -- "Capitalism has no more natural enemies": the Berlin School / David Clarke -- Projecting Heimat: on the regional and the urban in recent cinema / Jennifer Ruth Hosek -- No happily ever after: disembodying gender, destabilizing nation in Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled / Gayatri Devi -- Second movement: dislocation. Views across the Rhine: border poetics in Straub-Huillet's Machorka-Muff (1962) and Lothringen! / Claudia Pummer Ginsberg -- Contested spaces: Kamal Aljafari's transnational Palestinian films / Peter Limbrick -- Fatih Akin's Homecomings / Savaş Arslan -- Lessons in liberation: Fassbinder's Whity at the crossroads of hollywood melodrama and blaxploitation /



Priscilla Layne -- Sexploitation film from West Germany / Harald Steinwender and Alexander Zahlten -- A documentarist at the limits of queer: the films of Jochen Hick / Robert M. Gillett  -- Models of masculinity in postwar Germany: the Sissi films and the West German Wiederbewaffnungsdebatte / Nadja Krämer -- Crossdressing, remakes, and national stereotypes: the Germany-Hollywood connection / Silke Arnold-De Simine -- Third movement: disidentification. The aesthetics of ethnic cleansing: a historiographic and filmic analysis of Andres Veiel's Balagan / Domenica Vilhotti -- Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse: "feminist re-visions" of a historical controversy / Sally Winkle -- The Baader Oedipus Complex / Vojin Saa Vukadinovic ́-- Dislocations: videograms of a revolution and the search for images / Frances Guerin -- Germany welcomes back its Jews: Go for Zucker! and the women in German debate (aka Wiggie-leaks: a polemical analysis) / Terri Ginsberg -- Screening the German social divide: Aelrun Goette's Die kinder sind tot / David James Prickett -- A negative utopia: Michael Haneke's fragmentary cinema / Tara Forrest.

Sommario/riassunto

A Companion to German Cinema offers a wide-ranging collection of essays demonstrating state-of-play scholarship on German cinema at a time during which cinema studies as well as German cinema have once again begun to flourish.Offers a careful combination of theoretical rigor, conceptual accessibility, and intellectual inclusivenessIncludes essays by well-known writers as well as up-and-coming scholars who take innovative critical approaches to both time-honored and emergent areas in the field, especially regarding race, gender, sexuality, and (trans)nationalism