New directions in German cinema
by Cooke, Paul Homewood, Chris
Having been in the doldrums since the 1980s. German language cinema is again attracting attention at home and abroad with now regualr Oscar nominations and wins for the linkes of 'Downfall' and 'The lives of others', as well as attention at all the main international festivals. 'New directions in German cinema' explores German language cinema's developments since 2000. This title examines just what German language film has to offer, from the evolution of the so-called 'heritage films' which dom…
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- Full title :New directions in German cinema / edited by Paul Cooke and Chris Homewood.
Summary
Having been in the doldrums since the 1980s. German language cinema is again attracting attention at home and abroad with now regualr Oscar nominations and wins for the linkes of 'Downfall' and 'The lives of others', as well as attention at all the main international festivals. 'New directions in German cinema' explores German language cinema's developments since 2000. This title examines just what German language film has to offer, from the evolution of the so-called 'heritage films' which dominate the country's mainstream and which examine Germany's problematic pasts, to those which focus on the contemporary social reality of the Berlin Republic.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):I.B. Tauris
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 308 p. : : ill. ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781848859081, 1848859082, 9781848859074, 1848859074
- oclc:ocn798377584
- LC Classification:PN1990-1997
- Dewey Decimal:791.430 94309051
Table of Contents
Introduction : beyond the cinema of consensus? : new directions in German cinema since 2000 / Paul Coole and Chris Homewood ; 'A kind of species memory' : the time of the elephants in the space of Alexander Kluge's cinematic principle / John E. Davidson ; Downfall (2004) : Hitler in the new millennium and the (ab)uses of history / Christine Haase ; 'Wonderfully courageous'? : the human face of a legend in Sophie Scholl : the final days (2005) / Owen Evans ; Music after Mauthausen : re-presenting the Holocaust in Stefan Ruzowitsky's The Counterfeiters (2007) / Brad Prager ; Aiming to please? : consensus and consciousness-raising in Wolfgang Becker's Good bye, Lenin (2003) / Nick Hodgin ; Watching the Stasi : authenticity, Ostalgie and history in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The lives of others (2006) / Paul Cooke ; From Baader to Prada : memory and myth in Uli Edel's The Baader Meinhof complex (2008) / Chris Homewood ; The absent Heimat : Hans-Christian Schmid's Requiem (2006) / David Clarke ; Play for today : situationist protests and uncanny encounters in Hans Weingartner's The edukators (2004) / Rachel Palfreyman ; Germen Autoren dialogue with Hollywood? : refunctioning th…
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