German Film After Germany

Toward a Transnational Aesthetic

AvRandall Halle

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Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-10-01
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252091445
Förlag:University of Illinois Press

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Mer om författaren

Randall Halle is Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Queer Social Philosophy: Critical Readings from Kant to Adorno and coeditor of Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective.

Recensioner i media

"A highly original approach to the study of contemporary cinema."--New German Quarterly "[A] very insightful study . . . it is sure to stimulate a healthy and much needed debate on the future, if not existence, of 'German' cinema."--German Studies Review"This complex, elegantly argued book addresses the production, distribution, and reception of 'German' films in an era of international coproductions and nascent European nationalism. . . . Recommended."--Choice"This ambitious book offers a fresh, engaging perspective on distinctive transnational media developments in Western Europe over the last twenty years. Halle recounts in detail how recent economic, political, and linguistic trends have substantially altered the practices of cinema production, distribution, and consumption. His analysis of the multifaceted globalized media emerging in Germany should interest scholars in media studies, political science, sociology, and cultural history, as well as German studies."--Ramona Curry, author of Too Much of a Good Thing: Mae West As Cultural Icon

Innehållsförteckning

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 Schl¿ndorff, 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 Bibliography Index