A Companion to German Cinema offers a wide-ranging collection of essays demonstrating state-of-play scholarship on German cinema at a time during which cinema studies as well as German cinema have once again begun to flourish. Offersa careful combination of theoretical rigor, conceptual accessibility, and intellectual inclusiveness Includes essays by well-known writers as well as up-and-coming scholars who take innovative critical approaches to both time-honoredand emergent areas in the field, especially regarding race, gender, sexuality, and (trans)nationalism Distinctive for its contemporary relevance, reorienting the field to the global twenty-first century Fills critical gaps in the extant scholarship, opening the field onto new terrains of critical engagement INDICE: AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionFirst Movement: Destabilization1. Have Dialectic, Will Travel: The GDR Indianerfilme as Critique and Radical Imaginary - Dennis Broe2. Coming Out into Socialism: Heiner Carows Third Way - David Dennis3. Germany Identity, Myth and Documentary Film - Julia Knight4. Post-Reunification Cinema: Horror, Nostalgia, Redemption - Anthony Enns5. Capitalism Has No More Natural Enemies: The Berlin School - David Clarke6. Projecting Heimat: On the Regional and the Urban in Recent Cinema - Jennifer Hosek7. No Happily Ever After: Disembodying Gender, Destabilizing Nation in Angelina Maccarones Unveiled - Gayatri DeviSecond Movement: Dislocation8. Views Across the Rhine: Border Poetics in Straub-Huillets Machorka-Muff (1962) and Lothringen! (1994) - Claudia Pummer9. Contested Spaces: Kamal Aljafaris Transnational Palestinian Films - Peter Limbrick10. Fatih Ak1ns Homecomings - Sava Arslan11. Lessons in Liberation: Fassbinders Whity at the Crossroads of Hollywood Melodrama and Blaxploitation - Priscilla Layne12. Sexploitation Film from West Germany - Harald Steinwender and Alexander Zahlten13. A Documentarist at the Limits of Queer: The Films of Jochen Hick - Robert Gillett14. Models of Masculinity in Postwar Germany: The Sissi Films and the West German Wiederbewaffnungsdebatte - Nadja Krämer15. Crossdressing, Remakes, and National Stereotypes: TheGermany-Hollywood Connection - Silke Arnold-de SimineThird Movement: Disidentification16. The Aesthetics of Ethnic Cleansing: An Historiographic and FilmicAnalysis of Andres Veiels Balagan - Domenica Vilhotti17. Margarethe von Trottas Rosenstrasse: Feminist Re-Visions of a Historical Controversy - Sally Winkle 18. The Baader Oedipus Complex - Vojin Saa Vukadinovi19. Dislocations: Videograms of a Revolution and the Search for Images - Frances Guerin20. Germany Welcomes Back Its Jews: Alles auf Zucker! and the Women in German Debate (aka Wiggie-leaks: A Polemical Analysis) - Terri Ginsberg21. Screening the German Social Divide: Aelrun Goettes Die Kinder sind tot - David James Prickett22. A Negative Utopia: Michael Hanekes Fragmentary Cinema - Tara Forrest
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-9436-5
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 592
- Fecha Publicación: 30/12/2011
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