Dismantling The Dream Factory

Author : Hester Baer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857456175

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Dismantling the Dream Factory by Hester Baer Pdf

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.

Author : Christiane Schönfeld
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628923742

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The History of German Literature on Film by Christiane Schönfeld Pdf

This book tells the story of German-language literature on film, beginning with pioneering motion picture adaptations of Faust in 1897 and early debates focused on high art as mass culture. It explores, analyzes and contextualizes the so-called 'golden age' of silent cinema in the 1920s, the impact of sound on adaptation practices, the abuse of literary heritage by Nazi filmmakers, and traces the role of German-language literature in exile and postwar films, across ideological boundaries in divided Germany, in New German Cinema, and in remakes and movies for cinema as well as television and streaming services in the 21st century. Having provided the narrative core to thousands of films since the late 19th century, many of German cinema's most influential masterpieces were inspired by canonical texts, popular plays, and even children's literature. Not being restricted to German adaptations, however, this book also traces the role of literature originally written in German in international film productions, which sheds light on the interrelation between cinema and key historical events. It outlines how processes of adaptation are shaped by global catastrophes and the emergence of nations, by materialist conditions, liberal economies and capitalist imperatives, political agendas, the mobility of individuals, and sometimes by the desire to create reflective surfaces and, perhaps, even art. Commercial cinema's adaptation practices have foregrounded economic interest, but numerous filmmakers throughout cinema history have turned to German-language literature not simply to entertain, but as a creative contribution to the public sphere, marking adaptation practice, at least potentially, as a form of active citizenship.

Author : Robert Shandley
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781592138067

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Rubble Films by Robert Shandley Pdf

An insightful analysis of German film in the immediate postwar era.

Author : Mattias Frey
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857459480

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Postwall German Cinema by Mattias Frey Pdf

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.

Author : Jingan Young
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781800734784

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Soho on Screen by Jingan Young Pdf

Despite Soho’s rich cultural history, there remains an absence of work on the depiction of the popular neighbourhood in film. Soho on Screen provides one of the first studies of Soho within postwar British cinema. Drawing upon historical, cultural and urban studies of the area, this book explores twelve films and theatrically released documentaries from a filmography of over one hundred Soho set productions. While predominantly focusing on low-budget, exploitation films which are exemplars of British and international filmmaking, Young also offers new readings of star and director biographies, from Laurence Harvey to Emeric Pressburger, and in so doing enlivens discussion on filmmaking in a time and place of intense social transformation, technological innovation and growing permissiveness.

Author : Nitzan Ben Shaul
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857455925

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Cinema of Choice by Nitzan Ben Shaul Pdf

Standard Hollywood narrative movies prescribe linear narratives that cue the viewer to expect predictable outcomes and adopt a closed state of mind. There are, however, a small number of movies that, through the presentation of alternate narrative paths, open the mind to thoughts of choice and possibility. Through the study of several key movies for which this concept is central, such as Sliding Doors, Run Lola Run, Inglourious Basterds, and Rashomon, Nitzan Ben Shaul examines the causes and implications of optional thinking and how these movies allow for more open and creative possibilities. This book examines the methods by which standard narrative movies close down thinking processes and deliver easy pleasures to the viewer whilst demonstrating that this is not the only possibility and that optional thinking can be both stimulating and rewarding.

Author : Maria Fritsche
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857459466

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Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema by Maria Fritsche Pdf

Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By examining the decisive role that popular cinema played in the turbulent post-war era, this book provides unique insights into the reconstruction of a disrupted society. Through detailed analysis of the stylistic patterns, narratives and major themes of four popular genres of the time, costume film, Heimatfilm, tourist film and comedy, the book explains how popular cinema helped to shape national identity, smoothed conflicted gender relations and relieved the Austrians from the burden of the Nazi past through celebrating the harmonious, charming, musical Austrian man.

Author : Nigel Eltringham
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781782380740

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Framing Africa by Nigel Eltringham Pdf

The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society. While once the continent was the setting for narratives of heroic ascendancy over self (The African Queen, 1951; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952), military odds (Zulu, 1964; Khartoum, 1966) and nature (Mogambo, 1953; Hatari!,1962; Born Free, 1966; The Last Safari, 1967), this new wave of films portrays a continent blighted by transnational corruption (The Constant Gardener, 2005), genocide (Hotel Rwanda, 2004; Shooting Dogs, 2006), 'failed states' (Black Hawk Down, 2001), illicit transnational commerce (Blood Diamond, 2006) and the unfulfilled promises of decolonization (The Last King of Scotland, 2006). Conversely, where once Apartheid South Africa was a brutal foil for the romance of East Africa (Cry Freedom, 1987; A Dry White Season, 1989), South Africa now serves as a redeemed contrast to the rest of the continent (Red Dust, 2004; Invictus, 2009). Writing from the perspective of long-term engagement with the contexts in which the films are set, anthropologists and historians reflect on these films and assess the contemporary place Africa holds in the North American and European cinematic imagination.

Author : Matthew Christopher
Publisher : Jonglez Photo Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Photography
ISBN : 2361950944

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Abandoned America by Matthew Christopher Pdf

Originally intended as an examination of the rise and fall of the state hospital system, Matthew Christopher's Abandoned America rapidly grew to encompass derelict factories and industrial sites, schools, churches, power plants, hospitals, prisons, military installations, hotels, resorts, homes, and more.

Author : Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807031232

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The Knowledge Factory by Stanley Aronowitz Pdf

Americans can't get a good education for love or money, argues Stanley Aronowitz in this groundbreaking look at the structure and curriculum of higher education. Moving beyond the canon wars begun in Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, Aronowitz offers a vision for true higher learning that places a well-rounded education back at the center of the university's mission.

Author : Stephan K. Schindler,Lutz Peter Koepnick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015068807158

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The Cosmopolitan Screen by Stephan K. Schindler,Lutz Peter Koepnick Pdf

Explores German cinema's enthusiasm for and anxiety about the blurring of postwar cultural boundaries

Author : Ewa Mazierska
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781782382164

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Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema by Ewa Mazierska Pdf

Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe. Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema exposes an English-speaking audience to a large proportion of this region's cinema that previously remained unknown, focusing on the relationship between representation of masculinity and nationality in the films of two and later three countries: Poland, Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The objective of the book is to discuss the main types of men populating Polish, Czech and Slovak films: that of soldier, father, heterosexual and homosexual lover, against a rich political, social and cultural background. Czech, Slovak and Polish cinema appear to provide excellent material for comparison as they were produced in neighbouring countries which for over forty years endured a similar political system – state socialism.

Author : Cristina Degli-Esposti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781789203837

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Postmodernism in the Cinema by Cristina Degli-Esposti Pdf

Although "Postmodernism" has been a widely used catch word and its concept extensively discussed in philosophy, political thought, and the arts, many scholars still feel uneasy about it Despite the fact that the concept can be traced back to Arnold Toynbee's 1939 edition of A Study of History, or even back into the nineteenth century, its amorphous nature continues to confound many scholars, not least because there are not one but several kinds of postmodernism, each one pointing to different states of questioning and to diverse ways of remembering, interpreting, and representing. This anthology makes a significant contribution to the current debate in that it offers sophisticated and multi-faceted discussions of a number of key issues in relation to cinema such as auteurism, national cinemas, metacinema, the parodic, history, and colonization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : German philology
ISBN : WISC:89113480446

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Monatshefte by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Nicholls
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857454430

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Lost Objects of Desire by Mark Nicholls Pdf

This first book-length critical study of Jeremy Irons concentrates on his key performances and acting style. Through the analysis of some of the major screen roles in Irons's career, such as Brideshead Revisited, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Reversal of Fortune, Swann in Love, Dead Ringers and Lolita, Mark Nicholls identifies a new masculine identity that unites them: an emblematic figure of the 1980s and 1990s presented as an alternative to the action hero or the common man. Using clear explanations of complex theoretical ideas, this book investigates Jeremy Irons's performances through the lens of sexual inversion and social rebellion, to uncover an entirely original but recognizable screen type.