The Concise Cinegraph
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The Concise Cinegraph
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Author : ans-Michael Bock,,
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2009-09-01
The Concise Cinegraph written by ans-Michael Bock,, and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This comprehensive guide is an ideal reference work for film specialists and enthusiasts. First published in 1984 but continuously updated ever since, CineGraph is the most authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia on German-speaking cinema in the German language. This condensed and substantially revised English-language edition makes this important resource available to students and researchers for the first time outside its German context. It offers a representative historical overview through bio-filmographical entries on the main protagonists, from the beginnings to the present day. Included are directors and actors, writers and cameramen, composers and production designers, film theorists and critics, producers and distributors, inventors and manufacturers. An appendix includes short introductory essays on specific periods and movements, such as Early Film, Weimar, Nazi Cinema, DEFA, New German Cinema, and German film since unification, as well as on cinematic developments in Austria and Switzerland. Sections that crossreference names around specific professional groups and themes will prove equally invaluable to researchers.
Screening War
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Author : Paul Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2010
Screening War written by Paul Cooke and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath.
Willing Seduction
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Author : Barbara Kosta
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2012
Willing Seduction written by Barbara Kosta and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany's first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood stardom and for initiating the mythic pairing of the Austrian-born American director von Sternberg with the star performer Dietrich. This fascinating cultural history of The Blue Angel provides a new interpretive framework with which to approach this classic Weimar film and suggests that discourses on mass and high culture are integral to the film's thematic and narrative structure. These discourses surface above all in the relationship between the two main characters, the cabaret entertainer Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich) and the high school teacher Immanuel Rath (one-time Oscar winner Emil Jannings). In addition to offering insight into some of the major debates that informed the Weimar Republic, this book demonstrates that similar issues continue to shape the contemporary cultural landscape of Germany. Barbara Kosta thus also looks at Dietrich as a contemporary cultural icon and at her symbolic value since German unification and at Lola Lola's various "incarnations."
Postwall German Cinema
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Author : Mattias Frey
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2013-05-30
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 2013-05-30 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.
Historical Dictionary Of German Cinema
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Author : Robert C. Reimer
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-07-15
Historical Dictionary Of German Cinema written by Robert C. Reimer and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Historical Dictionary of German Cinema, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on directors, actors, films, cinematographers, composers, producers, and major historical events that affected the direction and development of German cinema.
Imperial Projections
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Author : Wolfgang Fuhrmann
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2015-05-01
Imperial Projections written by Wolfgang Fuhrmann and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-01 with Performing Arts categories.
The beginning of filmmaking in the German colonies coincided with colonialism itself coming to a standstill. Scandals and economic stagnation in the colonies demanded a new and positive image of their value for Germany. By promoting business and establishing a new genre within the fast growing film industry, films of the colonies were welcomed by organizations such as the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft (German Colonial Society). The films triggered patriotic feelings but also addressed the audience as travelers, explorers, wildlife protectionists, and participants in unique cultural events. This book is the first in-depth analysis of colonial filmmaking in the Wilhelmine Era.
B La Bal Zs Early Film Theory
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Author : Béla Balázs
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2010-05-30
B La Bal Zs Early Film Theory written by Béla Balázs and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-30 with Performing Arts categories.
Béla Balázs's two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a film theorist whose German-language publications have been hitherto unavailable to the film studies audience in the English-speaking world. Balázs's detailed analyses of the close-up, the shot and montage are illuminating both as applicable models for film analysis, and as historical documents of his key contribution – alongside such contemporaries as Arnheim, Kracauer and Benjamin – to critical debate on film in the 'golden age' of the Weimar silents.
Michael Haneke S Cinema
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Author : Catherine Wheatley
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2009-01-30
Michael Haneke S Cinema written by Catherine Wheatley and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-30 with Performing Arts categories.
Existing critical traditions fail to fully account for the impact of Austrian director, and 2009 Cannes Palm d'Or winner, Michael Haneke's films, situated as they are between intellectual projects and popular entertainments. In this first English-language introduction to, and critical analysis of, his work, each of Haneke's eight feature films are considered in detail. Particular attention is given to what the author terms Michael Haneke's 'ethical cinema' and the unique impact of these films upon their audiences. Drawing on the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Stanley Cavell, Catherine Wheatley, introduces a new way of marrying film and moral philosophy, which explicitly examines the ethics of the film viewing experience. Haneke's films offer the viewer great freedom whilst simultaneously imposing a considerable burden of responsibility. How Haneke achieves this break with more conventional spectatorship models, and what its far-reaching implications are for film theory in general, constitute the principal subject of this book.
Age Of Entanglement
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Author : Kris Manjapra
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-06
Age Of Entanglement written by Kris Manjapra and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-06 with History categories.
Age of Entanglement explores the patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of philologists, physicists, poets, economists, and others who shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another's worlds. Moving beyond well-rehearsed critiques of colonialism, this study recasts modern intellectual history in terms of the knotted intellectual itineraries of seeming strangers. Collaborations in the sciences, arts, and humanities produced extraordinary meetings of German and Indian minds. Meghnad Saha met Albert Einstein, Stella Kramrisch brought the Bauhaus to Calcutta, and Girindrasekhar Bose began a correspondence with Sigmund Freud. Rabindranath Tagore traveled to Germany to recruit scholars for a new university, and Himanshu Rai worked with Franz Osten to establish movie studios in Bombay. These interactions, Manjapra argues, evinced shared responses to the hegemony of the British empire. Germans and Indians hoped to find in one another the tools needed to disrupt an Anglocentric world order. As Manjapra demonstrates, transnational encounters are not inherently progressive. From Orientalism to Aryanism to scientism, German-Indian entanglements were neither necessarily liberal nor conventionally cosmopolitan, often characterized as much by manipulation as by genuine cooperation.
Dismantling The Dream Factory
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Author : Hester Baer
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Dismantling The Dream Factory written by Hester Baer and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Performing Arts categories.
The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer reassesses this period, looking in particular at how the attempt to 'dismantle the dream factory' of Nazi entertainment cinema resulted in a new cinematic language which developed as a result of the changing audience demographic. In an era when female viewers comprised 70 per cent of cinema audiences a 'women's cinema' emerged, which sought to appeal to female spectators through its genres, star choices, stories and formal conventions. In addition to analyzing the formal language and narrative content of these films, Baer uses a wide array of other sources to reconstruct the original context of their reception, including promotional and publicity materials, film programs, censorship documents, reviews and spreads in fan magazines. This book presents a new take on an essential period, which saw the rebirth of German cinema after its thorough delegitimization under the Nazi regime.