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A companion to German cinema

Terri Ginsberg (Editor), Andrea Mensch (Editor)
eBook, English, 2011
Wiley-Blackwell, [Place of publication not identified], 2011
1 online resource (560 pages)
9781444345582, 1444345583
1083179903
First movement: destabilization. Have dialectic, will travel: the GDR Indianerfilme as critique and radical imaginary / Dennis Broe
Coming out into socialism: Heiner Carow's third way / David Brandon Dennis / Germany identity, myth, and documentary film / Julia Knight
Post-reunification cinema: horror, nostalgia, redemption / Anthony Enns
"Capitalism has no more natural enemies": the Berlin School / David Clarke
Projecting Heimat: on the regional and the urban in recent cinema / Jennifer Ruth Hosek
No happily ever after: disembodying gender, destabilizing nation in Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled / Gayatri Devi
Second movement: dislocation. Views across the Rhine: border poetics in Straub-Huillet's Machorka-Muff (1962) and Lothringen! / Claudia Pummer Ginsberg
Contested spaces: Kamal Aljafari's transnational Palestinian films / Peter Limbrick
Fatih Akin's Homecomings / Savaş Arslan
Lessons in liberation: Fassbinder's Whity at the crossroads of hollywood melodrama and blaxploitation / Priscilla Layne
Sexploitation film from West Germany / Harald Steinwender and Alexander Zahlten
A documentarist at the limits of queer: the films of Jochen Hick / Robert M. Gillett
Models of masculinity in postwar Germany: the Sissi films and the West German Wiederbewaffnungsdebatte / Nadja Krämer
Crossdressing, remakes, and national stereotypes: the Germany-Hollywood connection / Silke Arnold-De Simine
Third movement: disidentification. The aesthetics of ethnic cleansing: a historiographic and filmic analysis of Andres Veiel's Balagan / Domenica Vilhotti
Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse: "feminist re-visions" of a historical controversy / Sally Winkle
The Baader Oedipus Complex / Vojin Saa Vukadinovic ́
Dislocations: videograms of a revolution and the search for images / Frances Guerin
Germany welcomes back its Jews: Go for Zucker! and the women in German debate (aka Wiggie-leaks: a polemical analysis) / Terri Ginsberg
Screening the German social divide: Aelrun Goette's Die kinder sind tot / David James Prickett
A negative utopia: Michael Haneke's fragmentary cinema / Tara Forrest