Post Wall German Cinema And National History
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Post Wall German Cinema And National History
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Author : Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2014
Post Wall German Cinema And National History written by Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
German history films that focus on utopianism and political dissent and their effect on German identity since 1989. Since unification, a radical shift has taken place in Germans' view of their country's immediate past, with 1989 replacing 1945 as the primary caesura. The cold-war division, the failed socialist state, the '68 student movement, and the Red Army Faction -- historical flashpoints involving political oppression, civil disobedience, and the longing for utopian solutions to social injustice -- have come to be seen as decisive moments in a collective history that unites East and West even as it divides them. Telling stories about a shared past, establishing foundational myths, and finding commonalities of experience are pivotal steps in the construction of national identity. Such nation-building is always incomplete, but the cinema provides an important forum in which notions of German history and national identity can be consumed, negotiated, and contested. This book looks at history films made since 1989, exploring how utopianism and political dissent have shaped German identity. It studies the genre - including popular successes, critical successes, and perceived failures - as a set of texts and a discursive network, gauging which conventions and storylines are resilient. At issue is the overriding question: to what extent do these films contribute to a narrative that legitimizes the German nation-state? Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien is Professor of Germanand The Courtney and Steven Ross Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College.
Re Imagining Defa
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Author : Séan Allan
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2016-09-01
Re Imagining Defa written by Séan Allan and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-01 with Performing Arts categories.
By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic—to the extent it was considered at all—was widely regarded as a footnote to European film history, with little of enduring value. Since then, interest in East German cinema has exploded, inspiring innumerable festivals, books, and exhibits on the GDR’s rich and varied filmic output. In Re-Imagining DEFA, leading international experts take stock of this vibrant landscape and plot an ambitious course for future research, one that considers other cinematic traditions, brings genre and popular works into the fold, and encompasses DEFA’s complex post-unification “afterlife.”
Hollywood Behind The Wall
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Author : Daniela Berghahn
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2005-07-15
Hollywood Behind The Wall written by Daniela Berghahn and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-15 with History categories.
Daniela Berghahn demonstrates that East German cinema occupies an ambivalent position between German national cinema on the one hand and East European and Soviet cinema on the other. The book includes a wide-ranging exploration of post-unification cinemafrom East Germany.
Cinema In Democratizing Germany
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Author : Heide Fehrenbach
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 1995
Cinema In Democratizing Germany written by Heide Fehrenbach and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Performing Arts categories.
Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she explores the complex political uses of film--and the meanings a
Postwall German Cinema
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Author : Mattias Frey
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2013-05-01
Postwall German Cinema written by Mattias Frey and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a proliferation of German historical films. These productions have earned prestigious awards and succeeded at box offices both at home and abroad, where they count among the most popular German films of all time. Recently, however, the country’s cinematic take on history has seen a significant new development: the radical style, content, and politics of the New German Cinema. With in-depth analyses of the major trends and films, this book represents a comprehensive assessment of the historical film in today’s Germany. Challenging previous paradigms, it takes account of a postwall cinema that complexly engages with various historiographical forms and, above all, with film history itself.
German National Cinema
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Author : Sabine Hake
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008
German National Cinema written by Sabine Hake and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business & Economics categories.
Sabine Hake traces German film's relationship with other national cinemas and popular culture as a whole, and focuses on key themes including genre, audiences and stars. This fully revised and updated new edition will be required reading for everyone interested in German film and the history of modern Germany.
German Cinema And The Nation S Past
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Author : Bärbel Göbel
language : en
Publisher: VDM Publishing
Release Date : 2007
German Cinema And The Nation S Past written by Bärbel Göbel and has been published by VDM Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Media have become extremely important channels for deploying ideology among viewers, readers and listeners worldwide. When film represents history, it inevitably re-shapes, re-interpretes and re-creates history for its audiences. National cinemas addressing national history allow a glance of that nation's understanding of its past today. This study presents a detailed discussion of three nationally significant events in German history (WWII, the 1954 Soccer World Cups, Germany's reunification 1989/1990). This is reflected in The Downfall (2004), Sophie Scholl - The Last Days (2005), The Miracle of Bern (2003), Germany - A Summer Tale (2006), Berlin Blues (2003), Sun Ally (1999) and The Life of Others (2006). They represent a sense and essence of Germany, defining the country expressively as a nation and Germans as one people amidst European Union, Globalization, and the War on Terrorism. How do young German filmmakers investigate Germany's negative past imagery? How was the self-perception of the nation informed in the past and who regulates the imagery displayed now? Germany has begun construction of an identity not founded on guilt, but it does not shy away from interrogating this guilt. This book is directed at researchers in Film, Media, Communications, History and studies addressing nationality and identity.
Nation And Identity In The New German Cinema
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Author : Inga Scharf
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-06-30
Nation And Identity In The New German Cinema written by Inga Scharf and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-30 with Performing Arts categories.
In this original study, Scharf investigates issues of national identity in films of the New German Cinema. Using a cultural studies analysis, Scharf argues that the conflict between this generation of critical filmmakers and their ‘German-ness’ translate into feature films that construct, and are pervaded by, a sense of "homelessness" at home. As the first cultural studies investigation of this cinematic movement, the book challenges existing film studies accounts by analyzing the New German Cinema within its social, temporal, and spatial contexts. Furthermore, with its broad concerns for the West German production context, the New German Cinema’s reception both nationally and internationally, as well as issues of representation, narration, and ‘Othering,’ Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema offers an interdisciplinary contribution to the ongoing debate on national cinema.
Framing The Past
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Author : Bruce Arthur Murray
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1992
Framing The Past written by Bruce Arthur Murray and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Performing Arts categories.
Eleven essays emerging from an October 1988 symposium titled Concepts of Cinema in German History, held at the U. of Illinois at Chicago, explore the complex network of social, political, and religious institution that have influenced the historiography of German cinema and television. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Postwall Germany S Historical Film Wave
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Author : Mattias Jörg Frey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Postwall Germany S Historical Film Wave written by Mattias Jörg Frey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
This dissertation examines postwall Germany's historical film wave as a "cinema of retro-flection," i.e., a highly ambivalent engagement with German history and film history which looks back to the recent past through and, in some instances, against prior interpretations of national history, especially the retrofilms of the New German Cinema. The term "retro-flection" emphasizes how retrospection and reflection are of a piece in the German history film wave. At issue are how postwall historical films respond to certain directors, stars, genres, traditions, or individual productions from Germany and abroad, indeed, how they incorporate and rework film history. More specifically, these films animate and investigate three layers of memory: (1) the works' historical interpretation of the period, event, and figures in question; (2) previous interpretations of this event, era, or figure; and (3) the contemporary moment in which the films themselves were made and screened. Five case studies from the post-1990 domestic film landscape offer a wide historical spectrum of East and West German experience: Das Wunder von Bern ( The Miracle of Bern, 2003), which returns to the 1950s; Baader (2002), which imagines the late 1960s and especially the 1970s; 23 (1999), a film about the 1980s; and two films that revisit the unification era, Die Unberührbare ( No Place to Go, 2000) and Good Bye, Lenin! (2003). Going beyond studies of so-called "German Heritage Films" which have almost exclusively focused on retrospective readings of the Nazi era, this contribution views Germany's postwall cinema of retro-flection above all as a much more expansive site of contestation in which national identity has been refashioned and reformulated.