A Companion to German Cinema
Terri Ginsberg editor Andrea Mensch editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:3rd Feb '12
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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.
“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."
- Matt Borg, Sheffield Hallam University, Reference RevISBN: 9781405194365
Dimensions: 254mm x 180mm x 33mm
Weight: 1111g
616 pages