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Lessons and Legacies XIII
New Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust: Social History, Representation, Theory
AvAlexandra Garbarini,Paul Jaskotm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
446 kr
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The social history of the genocide, its representation in postwar culture, and new theoretical approaches stand at the forefront of current research in a range of disciplines. Analyses at the most intimate scale—of the individual or of a particular locale— are juxtaposed with those that turn to broader studies of the war or postwar order. Complementing these different scales are theoretical investigations that address individual agency, moral judgment, and the construction of meaning and memory in the study of the victims of the Holocaust and in our understanding of society as a whole. Together they mark the contemporary scholarly landscape of Holocaust studies, which includes history as well as film and literary studies, philosophy, and religious studies (among other disciplines). Each of the volume's three sections contributes to understanding the Holocaust and postwar ramifications of the genocide by focusing on: 1) the history of specific communities of both victims and perpetrators; 2) postwar cultural representations; and 3) new theoretical understandings of each. The essays in this volume thus represent new interests in the field that contribute to building integrated histories of the Holocaust.
Lessons and Legacies XIII
New Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust: Social History, Representation, Theory
AvAlexandra Garbarini,Paul Jaskotm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 156 kr
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The social history of the genocide, its representation in postwar culture, and new theoretical approaches stand at the forefront of current research in a range of disciplines. Analyses at the most intimate scale—of the individual or of a particular locale— are juxtaposed with those that turn to broader studies of the war or postwar order. Complementing these different scales are theoretical investigations that address individual agency, moral judgment, and the construction of meaning and memory in the study of the victims of the Holocaust and in our understanding of society as a whole. Together they mark the contemporary scholarly landscape of Holocaust studies, which includes history as well as film and literary studies, philosophy, and religious studies (among other disciplines). Each of the volume's three sections contributes to understanding the Holocaust and postwar ramifications of the genocide by focusing on: 1) the history of specific communities of both victims and perpetrators; 2) postwar cultural representations; and 3) new theoretical understandings of each. The essays in this volume thus represent new interests in the field that contribute to building integrated histories of the Holocaust.
Collapse of the Conventional
German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
AvJaimey Fisher,Brad Prager
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
481 kr
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While difficult questions of history, culture, and politics figured less prominently in the lighter cinematic fare of the 1980s and 1990s, German filmmakers have recaptured the world’s attention since the turn of the millennium with vital, dynamic, and engaged works. In fact, today’s filmmakers have turned back to many themes that were important in the 1960s and 1970s, when a movement of young filmmakers proclaimed the collapse of existing filmmaking conventions. In The Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, editors Jaimey Fisher and Brad Prager present contributions from prominent German film studies scholars to examine the current politically charged and provocative moment in German filmmaking historically, ideologically, and formally as another break with cinematic convention.Fisher and Prager introduce the volume with a look back at the history of German film to define New German Cinema and identify the themes and motives that characterize its films and filmmakers. In the first section, essays explore the cinematic treatment of German national identity in historical films, including those that confront Germany’s Nazi past, such as Downfall, The Miracle of Bern, and the TV-film Dresden. The second section takes on German cinema’s examination of life in East Germany and the consequences of reunification by analyzing the films Good Bye, Lenin and The Lives of Others. The Collapse of the Conventional also examines new groundbreaking work by filmmakers such as Christian Petzold, Fatih Ak?n, and Christoph Hochhäusler to investigate how German film critically approaches globalization and the end of the cold war. This collection shows that today’s German filmmakers are delving into new modes of cinematic production in a global context. Students, scholars of film, and anyone interested in German and cultural studies will appreciate this volume.
Collapse of the Conventional
German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
AvJaimey Fisher,Brad Prager
E-bok
Engelska, 2010
481 kr
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Analyzes a diverse body of films and investigates the renaissance that has taken place in German cinema since the turn of the twenty-first century.
While difficult questions of history, culture, and politics figured less prominently in the lighter cinematic fare of the 1980s and 1990s, German filmmakers have recaptured the world’s attention since the turn of the millennium with vital, dynamic, and engaged works. In fact, today’s filmmakers have turned back to many themes that were important in the 1960s and 1970s, when a movement of young filmmakers proclaimed the collapse of existing filmmaking conventions. In The Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, editors Jaimey Fisher and Brad Prager present contributions from prominent German film studies scholars to examine the current politically charged and provocative moment in German filmmaking historically, ideologically, and formally as another break with cinematic convention.
Fisher and Prager introduce the volume with a look back at the history of German film to define New German Cinema and identify the themes and motives that characterize its films and filmmakers. In the first section, essays explore the cinematic treatment of German national identity in historical films, including those that confront Germany’s Nazi past, such as Downfall, The Miracle of Bern, and the TV-film Dresden. The second section takes on German cinema’s examination of life in East Germany and the consequences of reunification by analyzing the films Good Bye, Lenin and The Lives of Others. The Collapse of the Conventional also examines new groundbreaking work by filmmakers such as Christian Petzold, Fatih Ak?n, and Christoph Hochhäusler to investigate how German film critically approaches globalization and the end of the cold war. This collection shows that today’s German filmmakers are delving into new modes of cinematic production in a global context. Students, scholars of film, and anyone interested in German and cultural studies will appreciate this volume.
Construction of Testimony
Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes
AvErin McGlothlin,Brad Pragerm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
984 kr
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In The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes, editors Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselsberger gather contributions on how Shoah (1985) fundamentally changed the nature and use of filmed testimony and laid the groundwork for how historians and documentarians regard and understand the history of the Holocaust. Critics have taken long note of Shoah's innovative style and its place in the history of documentary film and in cultural memory, but few scholars have touched on its extensive outtakes and the reams of documentation archived at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and at Yad Vashem, or the release of five feature-length documentaries based on the material in those outtakes.The Construction of Testimony, which contains thirteen essays by some of the most notable scholars in Holocaust film studies, reexamines Lanzmann's body of work, his film, and the impact of Shoah through this trove-over 220 hours-of previously unavailable and unexplored footage. Responding to the need for a sustained examination of Lanzmann's impact on historical and filmic approaches to testimony, this volume inaugurates a new era of scholarship, one that takes a critical position vis-à-vis the filmmaker's posturing, stylization, and editorial sleight-of-hand. The volume's contributors engage with a range of dimensions central to Lanzmann's filmography and the outtakes, including the dynamics of gender in his work, his representation of Nazi perpetrators, and complex issues of language and translation. In light of Lanzmann's invention of a radically new form of witnessing and remembrance, Shoah laid the framework for the ways in which subsequent filmmakers have represented the Holocaust cinematically; at the same time, the outtakes complicate this framework by revealing new details about the filmmaker's complex editorial choices. Scholars and students of film studies and Holocaust studies will value this close analysis.
Construction of Testimony
Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes
AvErin McGlothlin,Brad Pragerm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
409 kr
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In The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes, editors Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselsberger gather contributions on how Shoah (1985) fundamentally changed the nature and use of filmed testimony and laid the groundwork for how historians and documentarians regard and understand the history of the Holocaust. Critics have taken long note of Shoah's innovative style and its place in the history of documentary film and in cultural memory, but few scholars have touched on its extensive outtakes and the reams of documentation archived at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and at Yad Vashem, or the release of five feature-length documentaries based on the material in those outtakes.The Construction of Testimony, which contains thirteen essays by some of the most notable scholars in Holocaust film studies, reexamines Lanzmann's body of work, his film, and the impact of Shoah through this trove-over 220 hours-of previously unavailable and unexplored footage. Responding to the need for a sustained examination of Lanzmann's impact on historical and filmic approaches to testimony, this volume inaugurates a new era of scholarship, one that takes a critical position vis-à-vis the filmmaker's posturing, stylization, and editorial sleight-of-hand. The volume's contributors engage with a range of dimensions central to Lanzmann's filmography and the outtakes, including the dynamics of gender in his work, his representation of Nazi perpetrators, and complex issues of language and translation. In light of Lanzmann's invention of a radically new form of witnessing and remembrance, Shoah laid the framework for the ways in which subsequent filmmakers have represented the Holocaust cinematically; at the same time, the outtakes complicate this framework by revealing new details about the filmmaker's complex editorial choices. Scholars and students of film studies and Holocaust studies will value this close analysis.
Del 10 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
Companion to Werner Herzog
AvBrad Prager
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
2 313 kr
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A Companion to Werner Herzog showcases over two dozen original scholarly essays examining nearly five decades of filmmaking by one of the most acclaimed and innovative figures in world cinema. First collection in twenty years dedicated to examining Herzog’s expansive careerFeatures essays by international scholars and Herzog specialistsAddresses a broad spectrum of the director’s films, from his earliest works such as Signs of Life and Fata Morgana to such recent films as The Bad Lieutenant and Encounters at the End of the WorldOffers creative, innovative approaches guided by film history, art history, and philosophyIncludes a comprehensive filmography that also features a list of the director’s acting appearances and opera productionsExplores the director’s engagement with music and the arts, his self-stylization as a global filmmaker, his Bavarian origins, and even his love-hate relationship with the actor Klaus Kinski
Companion to Werner Herzog
AvBrad Prager
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2012
2 493 kr
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A Companion to Werner Herzog showcases over two dozen original scholarly essays examining nearly five decades of filmmaking by one of the most acclaimed and innovative figures in world cinema. First collection in twenty years dedicated to examining Herzog’s expansive career Features essays by international scholars and Herzog specialists Addresses a broad spectrum of the director’s films, from his earliest works such as Signs of Life and Fata Morgana to such recent films as The Bad Lieutenant and Encounters at the End of the World Offers creative, innovative approaches guided by film history, art history, and philosophy Includes a comprehensive filmography that also features a list of the director’s acting appearances and opera productions Explores the director’s engagement with music and the arts, his self-stylization as a global filmmaker, his Bavarian origins, and even his love-hate relationship with the actor Klaus Kinski
Companion to Werner Herzog
AvBrad Prager
E-bok
Engelska, 2012
2 519 kr
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A Companion to Werner Herzog showcases over two dozen original scholarly essays examining nearly five decades of filmmaking by one of the most acclaimed and innovative figures in world cinema. First collection in twenty years dedicated to examining Herzog’s expansive career Features essays by international scholars and Herzog specialists Addresses a broad spectrum of the director’s films, from his earliest works such as Signs of Life and Fata Morgana to such recent films as The Bad Lieutenant and Encounters at the End of the World Offers creative, innovative approaches guided by film history, art history, and philosophy Includes a comprehensive filmography that also features a list of the director’s acting appearances and opera productions Explores the director’s engagement with music and the arts, his self-stylization as a global filmmaker, his Bavarian origins, and even his love-hate relationship with the actor Klaus Kinski
Del 1 - Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism
Writing Images
AvBrad Prager
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
1 265 kr
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Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology.The work of the groundbreaking writers and artists of German Romanticism -- including the writers Tieck, Brentano, and Eichendorff and the artists Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge -- followed from the philosophical arguments of the German Idealists, who placed emphasis on exploring the subjective space of the imagination. The Romantic perspective was a form of engagement with Idealist discourses, especially Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Fichte's Science of Knowledge. Through an aggressive, speculative reading of Kant, the Romantics abandoned the binary distinction between the palpable outer world and the ungraspable space of the mind's eye and were therefore compelled to develop new terms for understanding the distinction between "internal" and "external." In this light, Brad Prager urges a reassessment of some of Romanticism's major oppositional tropes, contending that binaries such as "self and other," "symbol and allegory," and "light and dark," should be understood as alternatives to Lessing's distinction between interior and exterior worlds. Prager thus crosses the boundaries between philosophy,literature, and art history to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience, examining the interplay of text and image in the formulation of Romantic epistemology.Brad Prager is Associate Professor of Germanat the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Del 82 - Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism
Writing Images
AvBrad Prager
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
360 kr
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Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology.The work of the groundbreaking writers and artists of German Romanticism -- including the writers Tieck, Brentano, and Eichendorff and the artists Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge -- followed from the philosophical arguments of the German Idealists, who placed emphasis on exploring the subjective space of the imagination. The Romantic perspective was a form of engagement with Idealist discourses, especially Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Fichte's Science of Knowledge. Through an aggressive, speculative reading of Kant, the Romantics abandoned the binary distinction between the palpable outer world and the ungraspable space of the mind's eye and were therefore compelled to develop new terms for understanding the distinction between "internal" and "external." In this light, Brad Prager urges a reassessment of some of Romanticism's major oppositional tropes, contending that binaries such as "self and other," "symbol and allegory," and "light and dark," should be understood as alternatives to Lessing's distinction between interior and exterior worlds. Prager thus crosses the boundaries between philosophy,literature, and art history to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience, examining the interplay of text and image in the formulation of Romantic epistemology.Brad Prager is Associate Professor of Germanat the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Del 1 - Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
Visualizing the Holocaust
Documents, Aesthetics, Memory
AvDavid Bathrick,Brad Pragerm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
401 kr
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Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust.Visual representations are an essential but highly contested means of understanding and remembering the Holocaust. Photographs taken in the camps in early 1945 provided proof of and visceral access to the atrocities. Later visualrepresentations such as films, paintings, and art installations attempted to represent this extreme trauma. While photographs from the camps and later aesthetic reconstructions differ in origin, they share goals and have raised similar concerns: the former are questioned not as to veracity but due to their potential inadequacy in portraying the magnitude of events; the latter are criticized on the grounds that the mediation they entail is unacceptable. Some have even questioned any attempt to represent the Holocaust as inappropriate and dangerous to historical understanding. This book explores the taboos that structure the production and reception of Holocaust images and the possibilities that result from the transgression of those taboos. Essays consider the uses of various visual media, aesthetic styles, and genres in representations of the Holocaust; the uses of perpetrator photography; the role of trauma in memory; aesthetic problems of mimesis and memory in the work of Lanzmann, Celan, and others; and questions about mass-cultural representations of the Holocaust.David Bathrick is Emeritus Professor of German at Cornell University, Brad Prager is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, and Michael D. Richardson is Associate Professor of German at Ithaca College.
After the Fact
The Holocaust in Twenty-First Century Documentary Film
AvBrad Prager
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
437 kr
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After the Fact studies the terrain of Holocaust documentaries subsequent to the turn of the twenty-first century. Until now most studies have centered primarily on canonical films such as Shoah and Night and Fog, but over the course of the last ten years filmmaking practices have altered dramatically. Changing techniques, diminishing communities of survivors, and the public's response to familiar, even iconic imagery, have all challenged filmmakers to radically revise and newly envision how they depict the Holocaust. Innovative styles have emerged, including groundbreaking techniques of incorporating archival footage, survivor testimony, and reenactment. Carrying wider implications for the fields of Film Studies, Jewish Studies, and Visual Studies, this book closely analyzes ten contemporary and internationally produced films, most of which have hardly been touched upon in the critical literature or elsewhere.
After the Fact
The Holocaust in Twenty-First Century Documentary Film
AvBrad Prager
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
471 kr
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After the Fact studies the terrain of Holocaust documentaries subsequent to the turn of the twenty-first century. Until now most studies have centered primarily on canonical films such as Shoah and Night and Fog, but over the course of the last ten years filmmaking practices have altered dramatically. Changing techniques, diminishing communities of survivors, and the public's response to familiar, even iconic imagery, have all challenged filmmakers to radically revise and newly envision how they depict the Holocaust. Innovative styles have emerged, including groundbreaking techniques of incorporating archival footage, survivor testimony, and reenactment. Carrying wider implications for the fields of Film Studies, Jewish Studies, and Visual Studies, this book closely analyzes ten contemporary and internationally produced films, most of which have hardly been touched upon in the critical literature or elsewhere.
After the Fact
The Holocaust in Twenty-First Century Documentary Film
AvBrad Prager
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
466 kr
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After the Fact studies the terrain of Holocaust documentaries subsequent to the turn of the twenty-first century. Until now most studies have centered primarily on canonical films such as Shoah and Night and Fog, but over the course of the last ten years filmmaking practices have altered dramatically. Changing techniques, diminishing communities of survivors, and the public's response to familiar, even iconic imagery, have all challenged filmmakers to radically revise and newly envision how they depict the Holocaust. Innovative styles have emerged, including groundbreaking techniques of incorporating archival footage, survivor testimony, and reenactment. Carrying wider implications for the fields of Film Studies, Jewish Studies, and Visual Studies, this book closely analyzes ten contemporary and internationally produced films, most of which have hardly been touched upon in the critical literature or elsewhere.
After the Fact
The Holocaust in Twenty-First Century Documentary Film
AvBrad Prager
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
1 872 kr
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After the Fact studies the terrain of Holocaust documentaries subsequent to the turn of the twenty-first century. Until now most studies have centered primarily on canonical films such as Shoah and Night and Fog, but over the course of the last ten years filmmaking practices have altered dramatically. Changing techniques, diminishing communities of survivors, and the public's response to familiar, even iconic imagery, have all challenged filmmakers to radically revise and newly envision how they depict the Holocaust. Innovative styles have emerged, including groundbreaking techniques of incorporating archival footage, survivor testimony, and reenactment. Carrying wider implications for the fields of Film Studies, Jewish Studies, and Visual Studies, this book closely analyzes ten contemporary and internationally produced films, most of which have hardly been touched upon in the critical literature or elsewhere.
Del 3 - Camden House German Film Classics
Phoenix
AvBrad Prager
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
256 kr
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Offers not only a close reading but also a film-historical contextualization of Phoenix, constituting the most significant and thorough study of Petzold's film to date.Christian Petzold's Phoenix (2014), a masterpiece from one of Germany's leading contemporary filmmakers, portrays a death-camp survivor's return to occupied Berlin just after the war has come to an end. Nelly, played by German film star Nina Hoss, returns badly wounded, her face covered in bandages, hoping that her German husband will still love her. Johnny fails to recognize her and instead offers her a role in an intricate criminal scheme. Petzold's film, which he scripted together with his frequent collaborator Harun Farocki, was an international success that has been widely compared with works by Alfred Hitchcock and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. This study explores the film's unique array of influences including the vast range of films, novels, and memoirs on which its screenwriters drew. Its central argument concerns the film's integration of a long history of German-Jewish works and ideas-its attempt to confront its audience with a neglected tradition that included figures as diverse as Peter Lorre, Fred Zinnemann, and Hannah Arendt. Offering a close reading of the film's themes, compositions, and music alongside a film-historical contextualization, this book constitutes the most significant and thorough study of Phoenix to date.Brad Prager is Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of Missouri.
Berlin School Glossary
An ABC of the New Wave in German Cinema
AvBrad Prager,Kristin Koppm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2013
504 kr
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Berlin School Glossary is the first major publication to mark the increasing international importance of a group of contemporary German and Austrian filmmakers initially known by the name the Berlin School: Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, Christoph Hochhäusler, Jessica Hausner and others. The study elaborates on the innovative strategies and formal techniques that distinguish these films, specifically questions of movement, space, spectatorship, representation, desire, location and narrative. Abandoning the usual format of essay-length analyses of individual films and directors, the volume is organized as an actual glossary with entries such as bad sex, cars, the cut, endings, familiar places, forests, ghosts, hotels, interiority, landscapes, siblings, surveillance, swimming pools and wind. This unique format combined with an informative introduction will be essential to scholars and fans of the German New Wave.
Berlin School Glossary
An ABC of the New Wave in German Cinema
AvBrad Prager,Kristin Koppm. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
508 kr
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Berlin School Glossary is the first major publication to mark the increasing international importance of a group of contemporary German and Austrian filmmakers initially known by the name the Berlin School: Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, Christoph Hochhäusler, Jessica Hausner and others. The study elaborates on the innovative strategies and formal techniques that distinguish these films, specifically questions of movement, space, spectatorship, representation, desire, location and narrative. Abandoning the usual format of essay-length analyses of individual films and directors, the volume is organized as an actual glossary with entries such as bad sex, cars, the cut, endings, familiar places, forests, ghosts, hotels, interiority, landscapes, siblings, surveillance, swimming pools and wind. This unique format combined with an informative introduction will be essential to scholars and fans of the German New Wave.
Deer Hunter
AvBrad Prager
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
172 kr
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Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release in 1978. However, it was also highly controversial and came to be seen as a powerful statement on the human cost of America's longest war and as a colonialist glorification of anti-Asian violence.Brad Prager's study of the film considers its significance as a war movie and contextualizes its critical reception. Drawing on an archive of contemporaneous materials, as well as an in-depth analysis of the film’s lighting, mise-en-scène, multiple cameras and shifting depths of field, Prager examines how the film simultaneously presents itself as a work of cinematic realism, while problematically blurring the lines between fact and fiction. While Cimino felt he had no responsibility to historical truth, depicting a highly stylized version of his own fantasies about the Vietnam War, Prager argues that The Deer Hunter’s formal elements were used to bolster his troubling depictions of war and race.Finally, comparing the film with later depictions of US-led intervention such as Albert and Allen Hughes’s Dead Presidents (1995) and Spike Lee’s Da Five Bloods (2020), Prager illuminates The Deer Hunter’s major presumptions, blind spots and omissions, while also presenting a case for its classic status.
Deer Hunter
AvBrad Prager
E-bok
Engelska, 2023
209 kr
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Michael Cimino''s The Deer Hunter was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release in 1978. However, it was also highly controversial and came to be seen as a powerful statement on the human cost of America''s longest war and as a colonialist glorification of anti-Asian violence. Brad Prager''s study of the film considers its significance as a war movie and contextualizes its critical reception. Drawing on an archive of contemporaneous materials, as well as an in-depth analysis of the film''s lighting, mise-en-scène, multiple cameras and shifting depths of field, Prager examines how the film simultaneously presents itself as a work of cinematic realism, while problematically blurring the lines between fact and fiction. While Cimino felt he had no responsibility to historical truth, depicting a highly stylized version of his own fantasies about the Vietnam War, Prager argues that The Deer Hunter''s formal elements were used to bolster his troubling depictions of war and race.Finally, comparing the film with later depictions of US-led intervention such as Albert and Allen Hughes''s Dead Presidents (1995) and Spike Lee''s Da Five Bloods (2020), Prager illuminates The Deer Hunter''s major presumptions, blind spots and omissions, while also presenting a case for its classic status.
Deer Hunter
AvBrad Prager
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2023
209 kr
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Michael Cimino''s The Deer Hunter was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release in 1978. However, it was also highly controversial and came to be seen as a powerful statement on the human cost of America''s longest war and as a colonialist glorification of anti-Asian violence. Brad Prager''s study of the film considers its significance as a war movie and contextualizes its critical reception. Drawing on an archive of contemporaneous materials, as well as an in-depth analysis of the film''s lighting, mise-en-scène, multiple cameras and shifting depths of field, Prager examines how the film simultaneously presents itself as a work of cinematic realism, while problematically blurring the lines between fact and fiction. While Cimino felt he had no responsibility to historical truth, depicting a highly stylized version of his own fantasies about the Vietnam War, Prager argues that The Deer Hunter''s formal elements were used to bolster his troubling depictions of war and race.Finally, comparing the film with later depictions of US-led intervention such as Albert and Allen Hughes''s Dead Presidents (1995) and Spike Lee''s Da Five Bloods (2020), Prager illuminates The Deer Hunter''s major presumptions, blind spots and omissions, while also presenting a case for its classic status.
Cinema of Werner Herzog
AvBrad Prager
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
236 kr
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Cinema of Werner Herzog
AvBrad Prager
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
841 kr
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Christian Petzold: Yella
AvBrad Prager,Jorn Glasenapp
E-bok
PDF, Tyska, 2021
236 kr
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Ein Film, ein Band – die "Film | Lektüren" nehmen sich Zeit und Raum. Band 2 ist mit Christian Petzolds "Yella" (2007) einem der vielschichtigsten und spannendsten deutschen Filme der 2000er Jahre gewidmet.Der psychologische Thriller "Yella" widersetzt sich einfachen Zuschreibungen und Kategorisierungen – und macht es uns deshalb so schwer, sich seiner schillernden Wirkung zu entziehen. Die Bilder gemahnen an Alfred Hitchcock und doch ist die Handschrift Christian Petzolds (*1960) unverkennbar. Der eigentliche Star des Films ist jedoch Nina Hoss in einer ihrer besten Rollen. Sie spielt die Titelfigur, eine junge Frau aus dem brandenburgischen Wittenberge, die ihr altes Leben im Osten für ein neues im Westen hinter sich zu lassen sucht. Es lockt die undurchsichtige Welt des Risikokapitals, die in Petzolds meisterlich erzähltem Werk ihren vielleicht definitiven filmischen Ausdruck findet.
FILM-KONZEPTE 59 - Ulrich Seidl
AvBrad Prager,Corina Erk
E-bok
PDF, Tyska, 2020
229 kr
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Ulrich Seidl (*1952) hat einen nahezu unvergleichlichen Stil, der bis zu seinem ersten Film "Einsvierzig" (1980) zurückreicht. In der Folgezeit drehte Seidl über zwei Dutzend Filme und wurde zu einem der provokantesten Filmemacher Österreichs.Ulrich Seidl ist nicht nur ein scharfer Kritiker seiner Heimat. Das Werk des Regisseurs zeichnet sich vor allem durch eine einzigartige filmische Stilistik aus: Die meisten seiner Filme vermischen fiktionale Anteile und dokumentarische Techniken; unabhängig von ihrer vermeintlichen Künstlichkeit wirken die Filme realistisch und authentisch. Das bisweilen verstörende Verhalten der Protagonisten, das in Filmen wie "Hundstage", der 2001 den Großen Preis der Jury bei den Filmfestspielen von Venedig gewann, "Im Keller" (2014) oder "Safari" (2016) zum Ausdruck kommt, ermöglicht einen Blick in die dunkelsten Abgründe Österreichs und in die privaten Höllen der Menschen, die porträtiert werden.Der Band gibt nicht nur eine Einführung in zentrale Aspekte des Seidl''schen Schaffens sowie der Rezeption seiner Filme, sondern befasst sich auch mit den Schlüsselelementen von Seidls Signatur als ''auteur'': seiner Kritik an bürgerlichen Verhaltensnormen, seinem Interesse an fotoästhetischen Darstellungsweisen sowie seiner Bereitschaft, die Figuren in kuriosen bis hin zu peinlichen Situationen zu zeigen – alles um seiner Filme willen.
FILM-KONZEPTE 59 - Ulrich Seidl
AvBrad Prager,Corina Erk
E-bok
Tyska, 2020
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Ulrich Seidl (*1952) hat einen nahezu unvergleichlichen Stil, der bis zu seinem ersten Film "Einsvierzig" (1980) zurückreicht. In der Folgezeit drehte Seidl über zwei Dutzend Filme und wurde zu einem der provokantesten Filmemacher Österreichs.Ulrich Seidl ist nicht nur ein scharfer Kritiker seiner Heimat. Das Werk des Regisseurs zeichnet sich vor allem durch eine einzigartige filmische Stilistik aus: Die meisten seiner Filme vermischen fiktionale Anteile und dokumentarische Techniken; unabhängig von ihrer vermeintlichen Künstlichkeit wirken die Filme realistisch und authentisch. Das bisweilen verstörende Verhalten der Protagonisten, das in Filmen wie "Hundstage", der 2001 den Großen Preis der Jury bei den Filmfestspielen von Venedig gewann, "Im Keller" (2014) oder "Safari" (2016) zum Ausdruck kommt, ermöglicht einen Blick in die dunkelsten Abgründe Österreichs und in die privaten Höllen der Menschen, die porträtiert werden.Der Band gibt nicht nur eine Einführung in zentrale Aspekte des Seidl''schen Schaffens sowie der Rezeption seiner Filme, sondern befasst sich auch mit den Schlüsselelementen von Seidls Signatur als ''auteur'': seiner Kritik an bürgerlichen Verhaltensnormen, seinem Interesse an fotoästhetischen Darstellungsweisen sowie seiner Bereitschaft, die Figuren in kuriosen bis hin zu peinlichen Situationen zu zeigen – alles um seiner Filme willen.
Visualizing the Holocaust
Documents, Aesthetics, Memory
AvDavid Bathrick,Brad Pragerm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
880 kr
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Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust.
Berlin School Glossary
An ABC of the New Wave in German Cinema
AvRoger F. Cook,Lutz P. Koepnickm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
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Berlin School Glossary is the first major publication to mark the increasing international importance of a group of contemporary German and Austrian filmmakers initially known by the name the Berlin School: Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, Christoph Hochhäusler, Jessica Hausner and others. The study elaborates on the innovative strategies and formal techniques that distinguish these films, specifically questions of movement, space, spectatorship, representation, desire, location and narrative. Abandoning the usual format of essay-length analyses of individual films and directors, the volume is organized as an actual glossary with entries such as bad sex, cars, the cut, endings, familiar places, forests, ghosts, hotels, interiority, landscapes, siblings, surveillance, swimming pools and wind. This unique format combined with an informative introduction will be essential to scholars and fans of the German New Wave.

Brad Prager – författare

Lessons and Legacies XIII

Lessons and Legacies XIII

Collapse of the Conventional

Collapse of the Conventional

Construction of Testimony

Construction of Testimony

Companion to Werner Herzog

Companion to Werner Herzog

Companion to Werner Herzog

Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism

Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism

Visualizing the Holocaust

After the Fact

After the Fact

After the Fact

After the Fact

Phoenix

Berlin School Glossary

Berlin School Glossary

Deer Hunter

Deer Hunter

Deer Hunter

Cinema of Werner Herzog

Cinema of Werner Herzog

Christian Petzold: Yella

FILM-KONZEPTE 59 - Ulrich Seidl

FILM-KONZEPTE 59 - Ulrich Seidl

Visualizing the Holocaust

Berlin School Glossary