Camden House German Film Classics – serie
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12 produkter
Marriage of Maria Braun
Häftad, 2024
347 kr
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A new reading of Fassbinder's most popular film that highlights the roles of race and gender.The Marriage of Maria Braun is the most popular film by the enfant terrible director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the leading exponent of the "New German Cinema" of the early sixties to early eighties. It …
Golem, How He Came into the World
Häftad, 2020
268 kr
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Provides an aesthetic and historical overview of and new critical insights into Paul Wegener's great 1920 film, recognized at the time as a breakthrough in German cinema.Actor and director Paul Wegener released his 1920 silent film The Golem, How He Came into the World in the aftermath of Germany's …
Fitzcarraldo
Häftad, 2019
268 kr
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Revisits Herzog's classic film from a decisively contemporary standpoint, bringing into play the development of his filmmaking career.When it was released in 1982, Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo was widely criticized for its demanding use of human and natural resources as well as its director's …
Wings of Desire
Häftad, 2019
286 kr
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A guide through the many aspects of Wenders's groundbreaking film, employing archival research to bring out new insights into its making and its meanings.Filmed in 1986/87 in still-divided Berlin, Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire is both a utopian fairy tale and a fascinating time capsule of that late …
Phoenix
Av Brad Prager
Häftad, 2019
268 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 …
White Ribbon
Av Fatima Naqvi
Häftad, 2020
286 kr
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Explores Haneke's historically complex film as a reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child-rearing.White ribbons and black pedagogy - Michael Haneke's award-winning film The White Ribbon (2009) is a multilayered reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child rearing. In this tense …
Patriot
Häftad, 2021
198 kr
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Revitalizes Alexander Kluge's classic 1979 film, showing it to be not just great storytelling but also an exploration of the poetic force of Frankfurt School Critical Theory.Alexander Kluge achieved his breakthrough at the 1966 Venice Biennale with his first feature, Yesterday Girl (Abschied von …
Coming Out
Häftad, 2022
302 kr
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Examines the creation, context, and significance of the first and only East German feature film about homosexuality.It took forty years for East Germany's state-run studios, DEFA, to produce a feature film about homosexuality: Coming Out. The film's story seems radically ordinary today: a young …
Warning Shadows
Häftad, 2021
320 kr
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A view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema - now restored and widely available - as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film.Artur Robison's Warning Shadows - in German simply Schatten, shadows - premiered in 1923 to critical acclaim. This story …
Cat Has Nine Lives
Av Hester Baer
Häftad, 2022
252 kr
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Restores the first German feminist film, long neglected, to its rightful status as a classic forebear of more recent cinefeminism, demonstrating that the film is as relevant today as it was upon its 1968 release.Acclaimed as postwar Germany's first feminist film, Ula Stöckl's The Cat Has Nine Lives …
Toni Erdmann
Häftad, 2021
268 kr
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The first in-depth analysis of Maren Ade's acclaimed contemporary classic, a generational tug-of-war about the meaning of life, work, and death.Maren Ade's tragicomedy Toni Erdmann, a 2016 Cannes sensation and Oscar nominee, is an internationally acclaimed classic of recent German cinema. By turns …
Last Laugh
Häftad, 2023
347 kr
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A penetrating new reading of Murnau's classic silent film that shows its transitional status, both historically and stylistically, while emphasizing its innovative camerawork and the ethical stakes of its story.An undisputed masterpiece of silent cinema, F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924) stars …
