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A Companion to German Cinema
“A Companion to German Cinema represents the cutting edge of German cinema studies that will force scholars to rethink their approach to the subject. Conceptually innovative and theoretically rigorous, the collection convincingly claims that the renewal of the field must occur from its margins.” -- Roy Grundmann, Boston University
“This book is meant to re-envision what has been little seen, unsettle your thinking about German cinema and visual culture, and examine German cinema’s socially transformative potential.” -- Dora Apel, Wayne State University
“Combining a path-breaking exploration of German cinema beyond the canon with a serious contribution to theories of nation and transnationalism, this collection is a much-needed addition to European film scholarship.” -- Rosalind Galt, University of Sussex
Terri Ginsberg (Edited by), TG Ginsberg (Author), Andrea Mensch (Edited by)
9781405194365, Wiley
Hardback, published 3 February 2012
616 pages
25.4 x 18 x 3.2 cm, 1.111 kg
“Any academic library that has students that might get the merest whiff of cinema as part of their curriculum should ensure this work is available to them.” (Reference Reviews, 1 December 2012) "[T]he carefully constructed essays in [this volume] contribute to elevating this reference book so much more than its component parts could have achieved - much like German cinema itself. It is a volume that contributes significantly to reference works on German cinema, European cinema, and cinematic history. Any academic library that has students that might get the merest whiff of cinema as part of their curriculum should ensure this work is available to them."
A Companion to German Cinema A Companion to German Cinema regards the shifting terrain of German filmmaking and film studies against their larger social contexts with twenty-two newly commissioned essays by well-established and younger scholars in the field. While several of these focus on classic topics such as Weimar cinema, Fifties cinema, New German Cinema and its legacy, and Holocaust film, the collection is distinguished by its focus on new developments and the innovative light they may shed on earlier practices. A Companion to German Cinema includes essays on Berlin Film, Neue Heimat Film, New Comedy, post-Wall documentaries, the post-Wende RAF genre, and Rabenmutter imagery, as well as on the persistently overlooked and under-theorized Indianerfilme, post-AIDS documentaries, sexploitation films, and new multicultural and transnational films produced in Germany under the auspices of the European Union. Organized into three “movements” representing the significance of these developments for their aesthetic theorization, A Companion to German Cinema challenges its readers to address critical gaps in the field with the aim of opening it further onto new terrains of intellectual engagement.
Notes on Editors and Contributors vii Acknowledgments xii Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 First Movement: Destabilization 23 1 Have Dialectic, Will Travel: The GDR Indianerfilme as Critique and Radical Imaginary 27 2 Coming Out into Socialism: Heiner Carow’s Third Way 55 3 German Identity, Myth, and Documentary Film 82 4 Post-Reunification Cinema: Horror, Nostalgia, Redemption 110 5 “Capitalism Has No More Natural Enemies”: The Berlin School 134 6 Projecting Heimat: On the Regional and the Urban in Recent Cinema 155 7 No Happily Ever After: Disembodying Gender, Destabilizing Nation in Angelina Maccarone’s Unveiled 175 Second Movement: Dislocation 193 8 Views across the Rhine: Border Poetics in Straub–Huillet’s Machorka-Muff (1962) and Lothringen! (1994) 197 9 Contested Spaces: Kamal Aljafari’s Transnational Palestinian Films 218 10 Fatih Akın’s Homecomings 249 11 Lessons in Liberation: Fassbinder’s Whity at the Crossroads of Hollywood Melodrama and Blaxploitation 260 12 Sexploitation Film from West Germany 287 13 A Documentarist at the Limits of Queer: The Films of Jochen Hick 318 14 Models of Masculinity in Postwar Germany: The Sissi Films and the West German Wiederbewaffnungsdebatte 341 15 Crossdressing, Remakes, and National Stereotypes: The Germany–Hollywood Connection 379 Third Movement: Disidentification 405 16 The Aesthetics of Ethnic Cleansing: A Historiographic and Filmic Analysis of Andres Veiel’s Balagan 409 17 Margarethe von Trotta’s Rosenstrasse: “Feminist Re-Visions” of a Historical Controversy 429 18 The Baader Oedipus Complex 462 19 Dislocations: Videograms of a Revolution and the Search for Images 483 20 Germany Welcomes Back Its Jews: Go for Zucker! and the Women in German Debate (aka Wiggie-leaks: A Polemical Analysis) 507 21 Screening the German Social Divide: Aelrun Goette’s Die Kinder sind tot 526 22 A Negative Utopia: Michael Haneke’s Fragmentary Cinema 553 Index 573
Terri Ginsberg and Andrea Mensch
Dennis Broe
David Brandon Dennis
Julia Knight
Anthony Enns
David Clarke
Jennifer Ruth Hosek
Gayatri Devi
Claudia Pummer
Peter Limbrick
Savaş Arslan
Priscilla Layne
Harald Steinwender and Alexander Zahlten
Robert M. Gillett
Nadja Krämer
Silke Arnold-de Simine
Domenica Vilhotti
Sally Winkle
Vojin Saša Vukadinović
Frances Guerin
Terri Ginsberg
David James Prickett
Tara Forrest
Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]
