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Mattias Frey is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent. His research revolves around German and Austrian cinema, historiography, matters of media reception and consumption, the history of classical and contemporary film theory, movie criticism, and cinephilia. His work appears in Cinema Journal, Screen, New German Critique, Quarterly Review of Film & Video, Framework, Film International, and Senses of Cinema, as well as numerous anthologies and reference works. He is the co-editor of Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship.

" - a highly inspirational and very readable book." * H-Soz-u-Kult "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 Unberuhrbare in particular stand out." * Paul Cooke, University of Leeds

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Rebirth of a Nation: Das Wunder von Bern, the 1950s, and the Reactions to the New German Cinema Chapter 2. Pop Retro-vision: Baader, Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, and the RAF Film Chapter 3. The Ambivalent View: 23, Historical Paranoia, and the 1980s Chapter 4. "Ostalgie," Historical Ownership, and Material Authenticity: Good Bye, Lenin!andDas Leben der Anderen Chapter 5. Unification, Spatial Anxiety, and the Recuperation of Material Culture: Die Unberuhrbare Chapter 6. The Future of the German Past Bibliography Index