The publication of Abel's book (now also available in paperback) represents a certain milestone, for bringing a cultural, historical, and aesthetic coherence and systematicity to the way these ?lms are now perceived. . . . Abel's interventions [ ] open new conversations within the discipline, while also bringing contemporary German cinema to the attention of scholars of affect whose gaze has otherwise seldom strayed beyond US, French, and British ?lm production .

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: So This Was Germany - A Preliminary Account of the Berlin SchoolNote on TranslationsThomas Arslan: Realism beyond IdentityChristian Petzold: Heimat-Building as UtopiaAngela Schanelec: Narrative, Understanding, LanguageRevolver Cinema and Électrons libres: Cinema Must Be DangerousChristoph Hochhäusler: Intensifying LifeBenjamin Heisenberg: Filming Simply as ResistanceValeska Grisebach: A Sharpening of Our RegardMaren Ade: Filming between Sincerity and IronyUlrich Köhler: The Politics of RefusalConclusion: A Counter-CinemaFilmographyBibliography

The publication of Abel's book (now also available in paperback) represents a certain milestone, for bringing a cultural, historical, and aesthetic coherence and systematicity to the way these ?lms are now perceived. . . . Abel's interventions [ ] open new conversations within the discipline, while also bringing contemporary German cinema to the attention of scholars of affect whose gaze has otherwise seldom strayed beyond US, French, and British ?lm production .

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: So This Was Germany - A Preliminary Account of the Berlin SchoolNote on TranslationsThomas Arslan: Realism beyond IdentityChristian Petzold: Heimat-Building as UtopiaAngela Schanelec: Narrative, Understanding, LanguageRevolver Cinema and Électrons libres: Cinema Must Be DangerousChristoph Hochhäusler: Intensifying LifeBenjamin Heisenberg: Filming Simply as ResistanceValeska Grisebach: A Sharpening of Our RegardMaren Ade: Filming between Sincerity and IronyUlrich Köhler: The Politics of RefusalConclusion: A Counter-CinemaFilmographyBibliography

The publication of Abel's book (now also available in paperback) represents a certain milestone, for bringing a cultural, historical, and aesthetic coherence and systematicity to the way these ?lms are now perceived. . . . Abel's interventions [ ] open new conversations within the discipline, while also bringing contemporary German cinema to the attention of scholars of affect whose gaze has otherwise seldom strayed beyond US, French, and British ?lm production .

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: So This Was Germany - A Preliminary Account of the Berlin SchoolNote on TranslationsThomas Arslan: Realism beyond IdentityChristian Petzold: Heimat-Building as UtopiaAngela Schanelec: Narrative, Understanding, LanguageRevolver Cinema and Électrons libres: Cinema Must Be DangerousChristoph Hochhäusler: Intensifying LifeBenjamin Heisenberg: Filming Simply as ResistanceValeska Grisebach: A Sharpening of Our RegardMaren Ade: Filming between Sincerity and IronyUlrich Köhler: The Politics of RefusalConclusion: A Counter-CinemaFilmographyBibliography