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Call No: 71(430) BER
Author: Abel, Marco; Fisher, Jaimey
Edition: 2018
Place: Detroit
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: 2018
PhysDes: viii, 356 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Subject: BERLIN SCHOOL; ABEL, MARCO; ADE, MAREN; WEERASETHAKUL, APICHATPONG; ARSLAN, THOMAS; GRISEBACH, VALESKA; HAUSNER, JESSICA; HOCHHAUSLER, CHRISTOPH; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS; KOHLER, ULRICH; PETZOLD, CHRISTIAN; TARR, BELA
Summary: The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art-Cinema came about in light of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)’s 2013 major exhibition of works by contemporary German directors associated with the so-called Berlin School, perhaps Germany’s most important contemporary filmmaking movement. Christoph Hochhäusler, the movement’s keenest spokesperson, stated that "the Berlin School, despite what the label suggests, is not a specifically German phenomenon. All over the world there are filmmakers exploring related terrain." In response to this "transnational turn," editors Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher have assembled a group of scholars who examine global trends and works associated with the Berlin School. The goal of the collection is to understand the Berlin School as a fundamental part of the series of new wave films around the globe, especially those from the traditional margins of world cinema. For example, Michael Sicinski and Lutz Koepnick explore the relation of the Berlin School to cinema of Southeast Asia, including Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tsai Ming-liang; Ira Jaffe and Roger Cook take a look at Middle Eastern film, with Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Abbas Kiarostami, respectively. The volume, however, also includes essays engaging with North American filmmakers like Kelly Reichardt and Derek Cianfrance as well as European auteurs like Antonioni, Tarr, Porumboiu, McQueen, and the Dardennes. Bringing German cinema into dialogue with this series of global cinemas emphasizes how the Berlin School manifests—whether aesthetically or thematically, politically or historically—a balancing of national particularity with global flows of various sorts. Abel and Fisher posit that since the vast majority of the films are available with English subtitles (and at times also in other languages) and recent publications on the subject have established critical momentum, this exciting filmmaking movement will continue to branch out into new directions and include new voices. The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts folds German-language cinema back into conversations with international as well as transnational cinema. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of German and global cinema. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780814342008

Call No: 71(430):45:32 COL
Author: Fisher, Jaimey (ed.); Prager, Brad (ed.)
Source: US
Place: Detroit
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: c2010
PhysDes: vi, 431 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and television series
Subject: POLITICAL FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS IN FILMS; GERMANY; AESTHETICS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. GERMANY; HISTORY OF CINEMA. GERMANY; STALINGRAD (GG, Joseph Vilsmaier, 1992); DOWNFALL (GG, Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004)SEE UNTERGANG, DER; UNTERGANG, DER (G, Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004); ROSENSTRASSE (US/BE/NE, Margarethe von Trotta, 2004); NO PLACE TO GO (GG, Oskar Rohler, 2000) SEE UNBERUHRBARE, DIE; UNBERUHRBARE, DIE (GG, Oskar Rohler, 2000); LIVES OF OTHERS, THE (GE, Florian Henckel Von Donnersarck, 2006)SEE LEBEN DER ANDEREN, DAS (GE, Florian Henckel Von Donnersarck, 2006); LEBEN DER ANDEREN, DAS (GE, Florian Henckel Von Donnersarck, 2006)
Summary: "Fisher and Prager have assembled a significant group of essays by the emerging generation of German cinema experts in the U.S. The anthology is the first serious attempt to retell the history of the New German Cinema and the 'consensus' cinema of the 1900s through the lens of contemporary, post-2000 films in all their diversity. Film scholars, students of the German cinema, and the general reading public will discover here why 'Deutsches Kino' is once again in the limelight. " -- Marc Silberman
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Includes filmography
ISBN: 9780814333778
Contents: -- Introduction / Jaimey Fisher and Brad Prager -- Imitation of life: the aesthetics of Agfacolor in recent historical cinema / Jennifer M. Kapczynski -- Public viewing: soccer patriotism and post-cinema / Lutz Koepnick -- More war stories: Stalingrad and downfall / Elisabeth Krimmer -- Neofeminist mutterfilm? the emotional politics of Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse / Anna M. Parkinson -- Dresden: the return of history as soap / Wilfried Wilms -- Terrains vagues: landscapes of unification in Oskar Roehler's No place to go / Johannes von Moltke -- German historical film as production trend: European heritage cinema and melodrama in The lives of others / Jaimey Fisher -- A world of objects: consumer culture in filmic reconstructions of the GDR / Michael D. Richardson -- Playing hide-and-seek with tradition: games, aesthetic form, and social critique in German cinema following the Wende / John E. Davidson -- Imaging Germany: the (political) cinema of Christian Petzold / Marco Abel -- Christoph Hochhausler's This very moment: the Berlin school and the politics of spatial aesthetics in the German-Polish borderlands / Kristin Kopp -- Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei: Edukating the post-left generation / Roger F. Cook -- The global elsewhere: Ursula Biemann's Multimedia countergeography / Barbara Mennel -- Glimpses of freedom: the reemergence of utopian longing in German cinema / Brad Prager -- works cited -- filmography -- contributors -- index --