Author : Roger F. Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783200618
Berlin School Glossary
Roger F. Cook
Berlin School Glossary
Berlin School Glossary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Berlin School Glossary book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts
Jaimey Fisher,Marco Abel
Author : Jaimey Fisher,Marco Abel
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814342015
The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts by Jaimey Fisher,Marco Abel Pdf
Germany’s most important filmmaking movement in conversation with its peers across the globe.
Movement and Performance in Berlin School Cinema
Olivia Landry
Author : Olivia Landry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253038043
Movement and Performance in Berlin School Cinema by Olivia Landry Pdf
Through a study of the contemporary German film movement the Berlin School, Olivia Landry examines how narrative film has responded to our highly digitalized and mediatized age, not with a focus on stasis and realism, but by turning back to movement, spectacle, and performance. She argues that a preoccupation with presence, liveness, and affect—all of which are viewed as critical components of live performance—can be found in many of the films of the Berlin School. Challenging the perception that the Berlin School is a sheer adherent of "slow cinema," Landry closely analyzes the use of movement, dynamism, presence, and speed in a broad selection of films to show how filmmakers such as Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec, Thomas Arslan, and Christoph Hochhäusler invoke the pulse of the kinesthetic and the tangibly affective. Her analysis draws on an array of film theories from early materialism to body theories, phenomenology, and contemporary affect theories. Arguing that these theories readily and energetically forge a path from film to performance, Landry traces a trajectory between the two through which live experience, presence, spectacle, intersubjectivity, and the body in motion emerge and powerfully intersect. Ultimately, Movement and Performance in Berlin School Cinema expands the methodological and disciplinary boundaries of film studies by offering new ways of articulating and understanding movement in cinema.
Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema
James Harvey
Author : James Harvey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319736679
Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema by James Harvey Pdf
This book investigates screen representations of 21st century nationalism—arguably the most urgent and apparent phenomenon in the Western world today. The chapters explore recurrent thematic and stylistic features of 21st century western European cinema, and analyse the ways in which film responds to contemporary developments of mounting tensions and increasing hostilities to difference. The collection blends incisive sociological and historical engagement with close textual analysis of many types of screen media, including popular cinema, art-house productions, low-budget independent work, documentary and video installation. Identifying motifs of nationhood and indigeneity throughout, the contributors of this volume present important perspectives and a timely cultural response to the contemporary moment of nationalism.
Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics
Simone Pfleger
Author : Simone Pfleger
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780228019145
Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics by Simone Pfleger Pdf
While heteronormativity continues to permeate nearly all threads of the socio-cultural fabric, several early twenty-first-century German films offer insight into how we might challenge that dominance and disrupt its linear construction of time. Examining the fluidity of time in eight contemporary films of the Berlin School, Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics foregrounds how queer conceptualizations of temporality can engage notions of subjectivity, relationality, and intimacy in visual representations. Each film depicts figures that grapple with an unattainable desire for connection, placed in landscapes shaped by hegemonic heteronormative intimacies, and a linear temporal organization of life that conforms to mainstream, traditional rhythms, and milestones. Simone Pfleger proposes a new model for viewing non-normative relationality and intimacies, using the concept of untimeliness as an analytical framework for examining content and aesthetics. In these films, untimeliness provides an alternative to the romanticization of progress by charting how the filmic figures understand themselves and relate to one another in various spheres: work, love, sex, home, family, and self. Ultimately, Pfleger shows how the texts uncover a temporary promise of breaking free from restrictive social structures, even as they make clear that this schism cannot and should not be permanent. By proposing time as a critical lens through which to investigate our relationships and intimacies, Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics offers a new way to think about film and encourages moviegoers to turn the analysis back toward themselves and their own desires, expectations, assumptions, and adherence to or deviation from normative narratives in their own lives.
The German Cinema Book
Tim Bergfelder,Erica Carter,Deniz Göktürk,Claudia Sandberg
Author : Tim Bergfelder,Erica Carter,Deniz Göktürk,Claudia Sandberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781911239420
The German Cinema Book by Tim Bergfelder,Erica Carter,Deniz Göktürk,Claudia Sandberg Pdf
This comprehensively revised, updated and significantly extended edition introduces German film history from its beginnings to the present day, covering key periods and movements including early and silent cinema, Weimar cinema, Nazi cinema, the New German Cinema, the Berlin School, the cinema of migration, and moving images in the digital era. Contributions by leading international scholars are grouped into sections that focus on genre; stars; authorship; film production, distribution and exhibition; theory and politics, including women's and queer cinema; and transnational connections. Spotlight articles within each section offer key case studies, including of individual films that illuminate larger histories (Heimat, Downfall, The Lives of Others, The Edge of Heaven and many more); stars from Ossi Oswalda and Hans Albers, to Hanna Schygulla and Nina Hoss; directors including F.W. Murnau, Walter Ruttmann, Wim Wenders and Helke Sander; and film theorists including Siegfried Kracauer and Béla Balázs. The volume provides a methodological template for the study of a national cinema in a transnational horizon.
Moving Frames
Carrie Collenberg-González,Martin P. Sheehan
Author : Carrie Collenberg-González,Martin P. Sheehan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781800733770
Moving Frames by Carrie Collenberg-González,Martin P. Sheehan Pdf
As the building blocks of moving pictures, photographs have played an integral role in cinema since the dawn of the medium—a relationship that has grown more complexly connected even as the underlying technologies continue to evolve. Moving Frames explores the use of photographs in German films from Expressionism to the Berlin School, addressing the formal and narrative roles that photographs play as well as the cultural and historical contexts out of which these films emerged. Looking beyond and within the canon, the editors gather stimulating new insights into the politics of surveillance, resistance, representation, and collective memory functioning through photographic rupture and affect in German cinema.
Film Quarterly Spring 2014
B. Ruby Rich
Author : B. Ruby Rich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520962071
Film Quarterly Spring 2014 by B. Ruby Rich Pdf
Film Quarterly has published substantial, peer-reviewed writing on cinema and media for nearly sixty years, earning a reputation as the most authoritative academic film journal in the United States, as well as an important English-language voice of cinema studies abroad.
Screening the Red Army Faction
Christina Gerhardt
Author : Christina Gerhardt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501336683
Screening the Red Army Faction by Christina Gerhardt Pdf
Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory explores representations of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in print media, film and art, locating an analysis of these texts in the historical and political context of unfolding events. In this way, the book contributes both a new history and a new cultural history of post-fascist era West Germany that grapples with the fledgling republic's most pivotal debates about the nature of democracy and authority; about violence, its motivations and regulation; and about its cultural afterlife. Looking back at the history of representations of the RAF in various media, this book considers how our understanding of the Cold War era, of the long sixties and of the RAF is created and re-created through cultural texts.
Christian Petzold
Jaimey Fisher
Author : Jaimey Fisher
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252095238
Christian Petzold by Jaimey Fisher Pdf
In eleven feature films across two decades, Christian Petzold has established himself as the most critically celebrated director in contemporary Germany. The best-known and most influential member of the Berlin School, Petzold's career reflects the trajectory of German film from 1970s New German Cinema to more popular fare in the 1990s and back again to critically engaged and politically committed filmmaking. In the first book-length study on Petzold in English, Jaimey Fisher frames Petzold's cinema at the intersection of international art cinema and sophisticated genre cinema. This approach places his work in the context of global cinema and invites comparisons to the work of directors like Pedro Almodovar and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who repeatedly deploy and reconfigure genre cinema to their own ends. These generic aspects constitute a cosmopolitan gesture in Petzold's work as he interprets and elaborates on cult genre films and popular genres, including horror, film noir, and melodrama. Fisher explores these popular genres while injecting them with themes like terrorism, globalization, and immigration, central issues for European art cinema. The volume also includes an extended original interview with the director about his work.
The Use and Abuse of Cinema
Eric Rentschler
Author : Eric Rentschler
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231539395
The Use and Abuse of Cinema by Eric Rentschler Pdf
Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar and postwall epochs and into the new millennium. These journeys afford rich panoramas and nuanced close-ups from a nation's production of fantasies and spectacles, traversing the different ways in which the film medium has figured in Germany, both as a site of creative and critical enterprise and as a locus of destructive and regressive endeavor. Each of the chapters provides a stirring minidrama; the cast includes prominent critics such as Siegfried Kracauer and Rudolf Arnheim; postwar directors like Wolfgang Staudte, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, and Alexander Kluge; representatives of the so-called Berlin School; and exponents of mountain epics, early sound musicals, rubble films, and recent heritage features. A film history that is both original and unconventional, Rentschler's colorful tapestry weaves together figures, motifs, and stories in exciting, unexpected, and even novelistic ways.
Sensitive Subjects
Leila Mukhida
Author : Leila Mukhida
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789206319
Sensitive Subjects by Leila Mukhida Pdf
Both politically and aesthetically, the contemporary German and Austrian film landscape is a far cry from the early days of the medium, when critics like Siegfried Kracauer produced foundational works of film theory amid the tumult of the early twentieth century. Yet, as Leila Mukhida demonstrates in this innovative study, the writings of figures like Kracauer and Walter Benjamin in fact remain an undervalued tool for understanding political cinema today. Through illuminating explorations of Michael Haneke, Valeska Grisebach, Andreas Dresen, and other filmmakers of the post-reunification era, Mukhida develops an analysis centered on film aesthetics and experience, showing how medium-specific devices like lighting, sound, and mise-en-scène can help to cultivate political sensitivity in spectators.
German Culture through Film
Robert C. Reimer,Reinhard Zachau
Author : Robert C. Reimer,Reinhard Zachau
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781585108572
German Culture through Film by Robert C. Reimer,Reinhard Zachau Pdf
German Culture through Film: An Introduction to German Cinema is an English-language text that serves equally well in courses on modern German film, in courses on general film studies, in courses that incorporate film as a way to study culture, and as an engaging resource for scholars, students, and devotees of cinema and film history. In its second edition, German Culture through Film expands on the first edition, providing additional chapters with context for understanding the era in which the featured films were produced. Thirty-three notable German films are arranged in seven chronological chapters, spanning key moments in German film history, from the silent era to the present. Each chapter begins with an introduction that focuses on the history and culture surrounding films of the relevant period. Sections within chapters are each devoted to one particular film, providing film credits, a summary of the story, background information, an evaluation, questions and activities to encourage diverse interpretations, a list of related films, and bibliographical information on the films discussed.
Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Films
Jennifer L. Creech
Author : Jennifer L. Creech
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253023179
Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Films by Jennifer L. Creech Pdf
Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Film merges feminist film theory and cultural history in an investigation of "women's films" that span the last two decades of the former East Germany. Jennifer L. Creech explores the ways in which these films functioned as an alternative public sphere where official ideologies of socialist progress and utopian collectivism could be resisted. Emerging after the infamous cultural freeze of 1965, these women's films reveal a shift from overt political critique to a covert politics located in the intimate, problem-rich experiences of everyday life under socialism. Through an analysis of films that focus on what were perceived as "women's concerns"—marital problems, motherhood, emancipation, and residual patriarchy—Creech argues that the female protagonist served as a crystallization of socialist contradictions. By framing their politics in terms of women's concerns, these films used women's desire and agency to contest the more general problems of social alienation and collectivism, and to re-imagine the possibilities of self-fulfillment under socialism.
The Routledge Companion to European Cinema
Gábor Gergely,Susan Hayward
Author : Gábor Gergely,Susan Hayward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000512298
The Routledge Companion to European Cinema by Gábor Gergely,Susan Hayward Pdf
Presenting new and diverse scholarship, this wide-ranging collection of 43 original chapters asks what European cinema tells us about Europe. The book engages with European cinema that attends to questions of European colonial, racialized and gendered power; seeks to decentre Europe itself (not merely its putative centres); and interrogate Europe’s various conceptualizations from a variety of viewpoints. It explores the broad, complex and heterogeneous community/ies produced in and by European films, taking in Kurdish, Hollywood and Singapore cinema as comfortably as the cinema of Poland, Spanish colonial films or the European gangster genre. Chapters cover numerous topics, including individual films, film movements, filmmakers, stars, scholarship, representations and identities, audiences, production practices, genres and more, all analysed in their context(s) so as to construct an image of Europe as it emerges from Europe’s film corpus. The Companion opens the study of European cinema to a broad readership and is ideal for students and scholars in film, European studies, queer studies and cultural studies, as well as historians with an interest in audio-visual culture, nationalism and transnationalism, and those working in language-based area studies.