Postwall German Cinema

Mattias Frey is a Reader in Film Studies at the University of Kent. His research revolves around historical filmmaking, arthouse cinema cultures, film criticism and theory, as well as German and Austrian media. His books include Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship; The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism: The Anxiety of Authority; Film Criticism in the Digital Age; and Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture.

“…a highly inspirational and very readable book.”  ·  H-Soz-u-Kult“…his highly original contribution to historiography reconsiders the ‘historical turn’ in recent German cinema, framing it as also indicative of a cinephilic reworking of the history of the cinema, effectively remediating previous filmic representations of history.”  ·  Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies"This book will make an important contribution to the growing body of literature on contemporary German film. The discussion of Das Wunder von Bern, Baader and Die Unberührbare in particular stands out."  ·  Paul Cooke, University of Leeds

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Rebirth of a Nation: Das Wunder von Bern, the 1950s, and the Reactions to the New German CinemaChapter 2. Pop Retro-vision: Baader, Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, and the RAF FilmChapter 3. The Ambivalent View: 23, Historical Paranoia, and the 1980sChapter 4. “Ostalgie,” Historical Ownership, and Material Authenticity: Good Bye, Lenin! and Das Leben der AnderenChapter 5. Unification, Spatial Anxiety, and the Recuperation of Material Culture: Die UnberührbareChapter 6. The Future of the German PastBibliographyIndex