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After the Avant-Garde
Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film
Av Randall, Halle, Randall Halle m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1808 kr
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New essays exploring the surging field of experimental film in today's Germany and Austria.Filmmaking in Germany and Austria has changed dramatically in the last decades with digitalization and the use of video and the Internet. Yet despite predictions of a negative effect on experimental film, the …
Screening War
Perspectives on German Suffering
Av Paul Cooke - see C80107, Marc Silberman
Inbunden, 2010
1299 kr
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Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath.The recent "discovery" of German wartime suffering has had a particularly profound impact in German visual culture. Films from Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse (2003) to Oliver …
New History of German Cinema
Av Jennifer M. Kapczynski, Michael D. Richardson
Inbunden, 2012
1667 kr
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A dynamic, event-centered exploration of the hundred-year history of German-language film.This dynamic, event-centered anthology offers a new understanding of the hundred-year history of German-language film, from the earliest days of the Kintopp to contemporary productions like The Lives of …
Women in Weimar Fashion
Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933
Av Mila Ganeva
Häftad, 2011
383 kr
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New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women.In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media -- film, magazines, advertising, photography, and popular literature -- but also emerged as a powerful …
Many Faces of Weimar Cinema
Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy
Häftad, 2011
396 kr
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New essays re-evaluating Weimar cinema from a broadened, up-to-date perspective.Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been taken as …
Visualizing the Holocaust
Documents, Aesthetics, Memory
Av David Bathrick, Brad Prager m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
432 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 …
Last Features
East German Cinema's Lost Generation
Inbunden, 2014
1392 kr
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WINNER: 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardDrawing on archival research and interviews with directors, writers, and editors, Last Features is the story of forgotten films made during the time of German unification.Last Features is the story of forgotten films made during the time of German …
Generic Histories of German Cinema
Genre and Its Deviations
Inbunden, 2013
1392 kr
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Offers a fresh approach to German film studies by tracing key genres -- including horror, the thriller, Heimat films, and war films -- over the course of German cinema historyOver the last few decades, the field of film studies has seen a rise in approaches oriented toward genre: studies that look …
Film and Fashion amidst the Ruins of Berlin
From Nazism to the Cold War
Av Mila Ganeva
Inbunden, 2018
1349 kr
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Shows how cinematic treatments of fashion during times of crisis offer subtle reflections on the everyday lives, desires, careers, and self-perceptions of postwar German women.This book steers attention toward two key aspects of German culture - film and fashion - that shared similar trajectories …
DEFA after East Germany
Inbunden, 2014
1808 kr
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Paints a complex portrait of East German film art and representation through examining eighteen key DEFA films following the fall of the Berlin Wall.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, East Germany's DEFA filmmakers had a brief window in which to critique GDR society on either side of the Wende, the …
New History of German Cinema
Av Jennifer M. Kapczynski, Michael D. Richardson
Häftad, 2014
621 kr
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A dynamic, event-centered exploration of the hundred-year history of German-language film.This dynamic, event-centered anthology offers a new understanding of the hundred-year history of German-language film, from the earliest days of the Kintopp to contemporary productions like The Lives of …
Nazi Past in Contemporary German Film
Viewing Experiences of Intimacy and Immersion
Av Axel Bangert
Inbunden, 2014
1323 kr
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From intimate portrayals of ordinary Germans and Nazi leaders to immersive spectacles of war and defeat, this study argues that, since 1990, German film has focused on portraying the Nazi past from within.How has the German image of the Nazi past changed since the reunification of East and West …
Forgotten Dreams
Revisiting Romanticism in the Cinema of Werner Herzog
Inbunden, 2016
1379 kr
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Offers not only an analytical study of the films of Herzog, perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but also a new reading of Romanticism's impact beyond the nineteenth century and in the present.Werner Herzog (b. 1942) is perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but his films have …
Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film
Av Robin Curtis, Angelica Fenner
Inbunden, 2014
1379 kr
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A volume of essays marking out a new, historically and culturally specific model for contemplating autobiographical non-fiction film and video.There is a widespread notion in the scholarly literature on autobiographical nonfiction film that there are unchanging, universal models for the …
Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936
Av Barbara Hales, Mihaela Petrescu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1379 kr
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New essays examining the differences and commonalities between late Weimar-era and early Nazi-era German cinema against a backdrop of the crises of that time.Hitler's Machtergreifung, or seizure of power, on January 30, 1933, marked the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the Third …
Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School
Av Marco Abel
Häftad, 2015
419 kr
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The first book-length study in any language of the "Berlin School," the most significant filmmaking movement to come out of Germany since the 1970s.WINNER: 2014 German Studies Association AwardThe contemporary German directors collectively known as the "Berlin School" constitute the most …
Austria Made in Hollywood
Inbunden, 2019
1246 kr
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Considers over sixty Hollywood films set in Austria, examining the film industry, the influence of domestic factors on images of a foreign country, and the persistence of clichés.Maria von Trapp, watching the final scene of The Sound of Music for the first time as "her" family escaped into …
Gender and Sexuality in East German Film
Intimacy and Alienation
Av Kyle Frackman, Faye Stewart
Inbunden, 2018
1392 kr
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The first scholarly collection in English or German to fully address the treatment of gender and sexuality in the productions of DEFA across genres and in social, political, and cultural context.The cinema of the German Democratic Republic, that is, the cinema of its state-run studio DEFA, …
Celluloid Revolt
German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968
Av Christina Gerhardt, Marco Abel
Inbunden, 2019
1392 kr
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Provides new insights into German-language cinema around 1968 and its relationship to the period's epoch-making cultural and political happenings.The epoch-making revolutionary period universally known in Germany as '68 can be argued to have predated that year and to have extended well into the …
Montage as Perceptual Experience
Berlin Alexanderplatz from Döblin to Fassbinder
Av Mario Slugan
Inbunden, 2017
1322 kr
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The first book to treat both Döblin's novel and the film adaptations of it, which it does while also articulating theories of literary and film montage.Alfred Döblin's novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and its film adaptations by Jutzi and Fassbinder are canonical works of literature and cinema, and yet …
Forgotten Dreams
Revisiting Romanticism in the Cinema of Werner Herzog
Häftad, 2019
422 kr
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Offers not only an analytical study of the films of Herzog, perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but also a new reading of Romanticism's impact beyond the nineteenth century and in the present.Werner Herzog (b. 1942) is perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but his films have …
Moving Images on the Margins
Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany
Av Seth Howes
Inbunden, 2019
1391 kr
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Documents the rich allusiveness and intellectual probity of experimental filmmaking-a form that thrived despite having been officially banned-in East German socialism's final years.In the German Democratic Republic during the 1970s and 1980s, more than two hundred films and videos, many of them …
Films of Konrad Wolf
Archive of the Revolution
Inbunden, 2020
1378 kr
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This is the first book in English on the films of Konrad Wolf (1925-1982), East Germany's greatest filmmaker, and puts Wolf in a larger European filmic and historical context.Konrad Wolf (1925-1982) was East Germany's greatest filmmaker and also an influential public figure in his country's …
Transnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism
Radical Aesthetics, Radical Politics
Av Claudia Breger, Olivia Landry
Inbunden, 2024
1309 kr
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Posits a new, aesthetically and politically radical, transnational German cinema - "transnational" also in the sense of concerns with migration, the movement of capital across borders, and globalization.This book makes a bold claim that, since around 2015, a new, transnational German cinema has …
Film and Fashion amidst the Ruins of Berlin
From Nazism to the Cold War
Av Mila Ganeva
Häftad, 2023
347 kr
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Shows how cinematic treatments of fashion during times of crisis offer subtle reflections on the everyday lives, desires, careers, and self-perceptions of postwar German women.This book steers attention toward two key aspects of German culture - film and fashion - that shared similar trajectories …
Austria Made in Hollywood
Häftad, 2023
253 kr
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Considers over sixty Hollywood films set in Austria, examining the film industry, the influence of domestic factors on images of a foreign country, and the persistence of clichés.Maria von Trapp, watching the final scene of The Sound of Music for the first time as "her" family escaped into …
Film History for the Anthropocene
The Ecological Archive of German Cinema
Av Seth Peabody
Inbunden, 2023
1233 kr
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From its beginnings, some of German film's most prominent genres and directors have focused on the natural world and its transformations by humans. Heimat films, "city symphonies," mountain films, and rubble films all blend the boundary between landscape documentary and fiction film. Yet German …
Charting Asian German Film History
Imagination, Collaboration, and Diasporic Representation
Av Qinna Shen, Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1493 kr
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Provides a diachronic view of Asian German film history from early Orientalism to increasing collaboration as well as exploration of difference and alternate forms of national and cultural belonging.From re-creating seedy opium dens and Hindu temples on set to capturing dazzling sights of Tokyo's …
Visualizing the Holocaust
Documents, Aesthetics, Memory
Av David Bathrick, Brad Prager m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
880 kr
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Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust.
After the Digital Divide?
German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media
Av Lutz Koepnick, Erin McGlothlin
Inbunden, 2009
855 kr
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New essays providing innovative ways of understanding the altered position of media in Germany and beyond.The term "new media" is a current buzzword among scholars and in the media industry, referring to the ever-multiplying digitized modes of film/image and sound production and distribution. Yet …
