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Screening the East
Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film Since 1989
Av Nick Hodgin
Inbunden, 2011
2040 kr
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"...contains useful and nuanced readings of the best-known films dealing with themes related to unification, as well as highlighting some equally interesting lesser-known works, in order to provide a rounded picture of German cinema's engagement with these issues in the past 17 years. I am not …
Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory
Visible Man and The Spirit of Film
Av Béla Balázs, Erica Carter m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
313 kr
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Béla Balázs’s two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a film theorist whose German-language publications have been hitherto unavailable to the film studies …
Peter Lorre: Face Maker
Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe
Av Sarah Thomas
Inbunden, 2012
1720 kr
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Peter Lorre described himself as merely a ‘face maker’. His own negative attitude also characterizes traditional perspectives which position Lorre as a tragic figure within film history: the promising European artist reduced to a Hollywood gimmick, unable to escape the murderous image of his role …
Dismantling the Dream Factory
Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language
Av Hester Baer
Häftad, 2012
295 kr
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...convincing in its arguments, Baer's Dismantling the Dream Factory is a nicely structured work that offers a good mixture of historiography and close analysis. Baer effectively draws on contemporary press and advertising materials to highlight extradiegetic discourses surrounding the films, …
Willing Seduction
<I>The Blue Angel</I>, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture
Häftad, 2012
313 kr
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Kosta's book not only adds new material..., but performs the invaluable tasks of synthesizing and building on the massive amounts of writing that has accrued around the film, its director, and stars. This makes the book ideal not only for the collections of German Studies and Film Studies scholars, …
Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium
Sites, Sounds, and Screens
Av Sabine Hake, Barbara Mennel
Inbunden, 2012
1880 kr
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In the last five years of the twentieth century, films by the second and third generation of the so-called German guest workers exploded onto the German film landscape. Self-confident, articulate, and dynamic, these films situate themselves in the global exchange of cinematic images, citing and …
Destination London
German-Speaking Emigrés and British Cinema, 1925-1950
Av Tim Bergfelder, Christian Cargnelli
Häftad, 2012
307 kr
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The legacy of emigres in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the Second World War, has been largely neglected in the scholarly literature. Destination London is the first book to redress this imbalance. Focusing on areas such as exile, genre, technological transfer, …
Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema
Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity
Inbunden, 2013
1979 kr
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Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By examining the decisive role that popular cinema played in the turbulent post-war era, this book provides …
Postwall German Cinema
History, Film History and Cinephilia
Av Mattias Frey
Inbunden, 2013
2040 kr
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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a proliferation of German historical films. These productions have earned prestigious awards and succeeded at box offices both at home and abroad, where they count among the most popular German films of all time. Recently, however, the country’s …
International Adventures
German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s
Inbunden, 2004
1880 kr
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West German cinema of the 1960s is frequently associated with the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers, collectively known by the 1970s as the "New German Cinema." Yet for domestic and international audiences at the time, German cinema primarily meant popular genres such as exotic adventure …
International Adventures
German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s
Häftad, 2005
326 kr
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West German cinema of the 1960s is frequently associated with the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers, collectively known by the 1970s as the "New German Cinema." Yet for domestic and international audiences at the time, German cinema primarily meant popular genres such as exotic adventure …
Concise Cinegraph
Encyclopaedia of German Cinema
Av , ans-Michael Bock, , im Bergfelder
Inbunden, 2009
1996 kr
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This comprehensive guide is an ideal reference work for film specialists and enthusiasts. First published in 1984 but continuously updated ever since, CineGraph is the most authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia on German-speaking cinema in the German language. This condensed and …
Screening the East
Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989
Av Nick Hodgin
Häftad, 2013
326 kr
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Screening the East considers German filmmakers’ responses to unification. In particular, it traces the representation of the East German community in films made since 1989 and considers whether these narratives challenge or reinforce the notion of a separate East German identity. The book …
Emergence of Film Culture
Knowledge Production, Institution Building, and the Fate of the Avant-Garde in Europe, 1919–1945
Inbunden, 2014
2254 kr
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Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrant film culture emerged in Europe. Film festivals and schools were established; film theory and history was written that took cinema seriously as an art form; and critical writing that created the film canon flourished. This scene was decidedly …
Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium
Sites, Sounds, and Screens
Av Sabine Hake, Barbara Mennel
Häftad, 2014
560 kr
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In the last five years of the twentieth century, films by the second and third generation of the so-called German guest workers exploded onto the German film landscape. Self-confident, articulate, and dynamic, these films situate themselves in the global exchange of cinematic images, citing and …
Imperial Projections
Screening the German Colonies
Inbunden, 2015
1979 kr
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The beginning of filmmaking in the German colonies coincided with colonialism itself coming to a standstill. Scandals and economic stagnation in the colonies demanded a new and positive image of their value for Germany. By promoting business and establishing a new genre within the fast growing film …
Postwall German Cinema
History, Film History and Cinephilia
Av Mattias Frey
Häftad, 2015
560 kr
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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a proliferation of German historical films. These productions have earned prestigious awards and scored at box offices both at home and abroad, where they count among the most popular German films of all time. Suddenly, however, a significant …
Cinema in Service of the State
Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
Inbunden, 2015
2186 kr
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The national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany were two of the most vital sites of filmmaking in the Eastern Bloc, and over the course of two decades, they contributed to and were shaped by such significant developments as Sovietization, de-Stalinization, and the conservative retrenchment …
Peter Lorre: Face Maker
Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe
Av Sarah Thomas
Häftad, 2015
370 kr
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Peter Lorre described himself as merely a ‘face maker’. His own negative attitude also characterizes traditional perspectives which position Lorre as a tragic figure within film history: the promising European artist reduced to a Hollywood gimmick, unable to escape the murderous image of his role …
German Television
Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Av Larson Powell, Robert Shandley
Inbunden, 2016
1921 kr
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Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume, the first in English on the subject, provides a much-needed corrective in the form of …
Emergence of Film Culture
Knowledge Production, Institution Building, and the Fate of the Avant-Garde in Europe, 1919–1945
Häftad, 2017
637 kr
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Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrant film culture emerged in Europe. Film festivals and schools were established; film theory and history was written that took cinema seriously as an art form; and critical writing that created the film canon flourished. This scene was decidedly …
Imperial Projections
Screening the German Colonies
Häftad, 2017
543 kr
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The beginning of filmmaking in the German colonies coincided with colonialism itself coming to a standstill. Scandals and economic stagnation in the colonies demanded a new and positive image of their value for Germany. By promoting business and establishing a new genre within the fast growing film …
Cinema in Service of the State
Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
Häftad, 2017
618 kr
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The national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany were two of the most vital sites of filmmaking in the Eastern Bloc, and over the course of two decades, they contributed to and were shaped by such significant developments as Sovietization, de-Stalinization, and the conservative retrenchment …
German Television
Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Av Larson Powell, Robert Shandley
Häftad, 2018
527 kr
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Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume, the first in English on the subject, provides a much-needed corrective in the form of …
Screening Art
Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema
Av Seán Allan
Inbunden, 2019
1921 kr
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With internationalist aspirations and wide-ranging historical perspectives, East German films about artists and their work became hotly contested spaces in which filmmakers could look beyond the GDR and debate the impact of contemporary cultural policy on the reception of their pre-war cultural …
Cinema of Collaboration
DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe
Inbunden, 2019
1979 kr
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From their very inception, European cinemas undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational “Film-Europe.” In the postwar era, it was DEFA, the state cinema of East Germany, that emerged as a key site for cooperative practices. Despite the significant challenges that the …
Sensitive Subjects
The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema
Inbunden, 2020
1921 kr
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Both politically and aesthetically, the contemporary German and Austrian film landscape is a far cry from the early days of the medium, when critics like Siegfried Kracauer produced foundational works of film theory amid the tumult of the early twentieth century. Yet, as Leila Mukhida demonstrates …
East German Film and the Holocaust
Inbunden, 2021
1916 kr
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East Germany’s ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany’s name during the Third Reich. Instead, it cast communists as both victims of and victors over National Socialist oppression while marginalizing discussions of Jewish suffering. Yet for the …
Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema
Av Barbara Hales, Valerie Weinstein
Inbunden, 2020
2139 kr
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The burgeoning film industry in the Weimar Republic was, among other things, a major site of German-Jewish experience, one that provided a sphere for Jewish “outsiders” to shape mainstream culture. The chapters collected in this volume deploy new historical, theoretical, and methodological …
Peter Lilienthal
A Cinema of Exile and Resistance
Inbunden, 2021
1921 kr
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Best known for his 1979 film David, Peter Lilienthal was an unusual figure within postwar filmmaking circles. A child refugee from Nazi Germany who grew up in Uruguay, he was uniquely situated at the crossroads of German, Jewish, and Latin American cultures: while his work emerged from West German …
