{"product_id":"a-companion-to-german-cinema-hardback-9781405194365","title":"A Companion to German Cinema (Hardback) 9781405194365","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to German Cinema\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTerri Ginsberg (Edited by), TG Ginsberg (Author), Andrea Mensch (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405194365, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 February 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e616 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 18 x 3.2 cm, 1.111 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003eAny 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.”  (\u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 December 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Matt Borg, Sheffield Hallam University, Reference Reviews\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Companion to German Cinema\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to German Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e A Companion to German Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e includes essays on Berlin Film, Neue Heimat Film, New Comedy, post-Wall documentaries, the post-\u003ci\u003eWende\u003c\/i\u003e RAF genre, and \u003ci\u003eRabenmutter\u003c\/i\u003e imagery, as well as on the persistently overlooked and under-theorized \u003ci\u003eIndianerfilme\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to German Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e challenges its readers to address critical gaps in the field with the aim of opening it further onto new terrains of intellectual engagement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Editors and Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTerri Ginsberg and Andrea Mensch \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst Movement: Destabilization 23\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Have Dialectic, Will Travel: The GDR\u003ci\u003e Indianerfilme\u003c\/i\u003e as Critique and Radical Imaginary 27\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDennis Broe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 \u003ci\u003eComing Out\u003c\/i\u003e into Socialism: Heiner Carow’s Third Way 55\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Brandon Dennis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 German Identity, Myth, and Documentary Film 82\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJulia Knight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Post-Reunification Cinema: Horror, Nostalgia, Redemption 110\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnthony Enns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 “Capitalism Has No More Natural Enemies”: The Berlin School 134\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Clarke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Projecting \u003ci\u003eHeimat\u003c\/i\u003e: On the Regional and the Urban in Recent Cinema 155\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJennifer Ruth Hosek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 No Happily Ever After: Disembodying Gender, Destabilizing Nation in Angelina Maccarone’s \u003ci\u003eUnveiled\u003c\/i\u003e 175\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGayatri Devi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSecond Movement: Dislocation 193\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Views across the Rhine: Border Poetics in Straub–Huillet’s \u003ci\u003eMachorka-Muff \u003c\/i\u003e(1962)\u003ci\u003e and Lothringen! \u003c\/i\u003e(1994)\u003ci\u003e 197\u003cbr\u003e Claudia Pummer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Contested Spaces: Kamal Aljafari’s Transnational Palestinian Films 218\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Limbrick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Fatih Akın’s Homecomings 249\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSavaş Arslan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Lessons in Liberation: Fassbinder’s \u003ci\u003eWhity\u003c\/i\u003e at the Crossroads of Hollywood Melodrama and Blaxploitation 260\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePriscilla Layne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Sexploitation Film from West Germany 287\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHarald Steinwender and Alexander Zahlten\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 A Documentarist at the Limits of Queer: The Films of Jochen Hick 318\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert M. Gillett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Models of Masculinity in Postwar Germany: The \u003ci\u003eSissi\u003c\/i\u003e Films and the West German Wiederbewaffnungsdebatte 341\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNadja Krämer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Crossdressing, Remakes, and National Stereotypes: The Germany–Hollywood Connection 379\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilke Arnold-de Simine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThird Movement: Disidentification 405\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Aesthetics of Ethnic Cleansing: A Historiographic and Filmic Analysis of Andres Veiel’s \u003ci\u003eBalagan\u003c\/i\u003e 409\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDomenica Vilhotti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Margarethe von Trotta’s \u003ci\u003eRosenstrasse\u003c\/i\u003e: “Feminist Re-Visions” of a Historical Controversy 429\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSally Winkle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Baader Oedipus Complex 462\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVojin Saša Vukadinović\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Dislocations: \u003ci\u003eVideograms of a Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e and the Search for Images 483\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrances Guerin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Germany Welcomes Back Its Jews: \u003ci\u003eGo for Zucker\u003c\/i\u003e! and the Women in German Debate (aka Wiggie-leaks: A Polemical Analysis) 507\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTerri Ginsberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Screening the German Social Divide: Aelrun Goette’s \u003ci\u003eDie Kinder sind tot\u003c\/i\u003e 526\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid James Prickett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 A Negative Utopia: Michael Haneke’s Fragmentary Cinema 553\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTara Forrest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 573\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52437799403800,"sku":"9781405194365","price":38.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781405194365.jpg?v=1784941517","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-companion-to-german-cinema-hardback-9781405194365","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}