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Author : Richard C. Helt
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book West German Cinema Since 1945 written by Richard C. Helt and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joachim Lembach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Standing of the German Cinema in Great Britain After 1945 written by Joachim Lembach and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the reception in Great Britain of the post-war German cinema, seen here as part of the wider issue of foreign-language film distribution and exhibition in the UK. An analysis of the relevant structural conditions of the industry as well as public attitudes toward non-English-language cinema is followed by a detailed reconstruction of the way films from both West and East Germany have been made available to British audiences, including an assessment of how they have been promoted both commercially and culturally. The final chapter ascertains to what extent the critical response to contemporary German features is a reflection of the general British perception of the films' country of origin. An appendix presents a list of 800 feature films, with details of their screenings on British television and in the cinema over five decades, as well as a bibliography including details of many film reviews, mainly from newspapers and specialist publications.
Author : Hans Günther Pflaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Germany on Film written by Hans Günther Pflaum and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade, a number of English-language works on West German cinema since World War II have been published. Though they have dealt with the genre in general historical and theoretical terms, their treatment of individual films and more specific thematic concerns has been minimal. This translation of Hans Günter Pflaum's Deutschland im Film is the first work in English to provide a means to analyze and interpret the thematic complexity and apparently obscure symbolism of much of serious West German cinema. Pflaum focuses on the context and content of a large number of films, helping the reader to understand both a given work's socio-historical background as well as the aesthetic intent of its author/director. Among the topics of Pflaum treats are the rediscovery of a regional German genre, the proletarian film, crime and war films, avant-garde and experimental films, comedies, and films based on literary works. For this English-language edition, Pflaum provided additional text material to bring the information in the 1985 German edition up to date. Cinema specialists, teachers and students of contemporary German culture and society, as well as film critics and journalists will find his work invaluable in understanding the thematic multiplicity, the divergent social and political concerns, and the aesthetic-didactic intentions of West German Filmmakers.
Author : K. Machtans
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137032383
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Hitler - Films from Germany written by K. Machtans and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like Downfall in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their implications for the changing place of the Third Reich in the national historical imagination.
Author : John Davidson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845455363
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Framing the Fifties written by John Davidson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology offers an account of German cinema in the fifties, focusing on popular genres, famous stars and dominant practices, taking into account the complicated relationships between East and West Germany, and by paying attention to the economic and political conditions of film production and reception during this period.
Author : Henry Payne Pilgert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Press, Radio and Film in West Germany, 1945-1953 written by Henry Payne Pilgert and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134627572
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book German Cinema - Terror and Trauma written by Thomas Elsaesser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In German Cinema – Terror and Trauma Since 1945, Thomas Elsaesser reevaluates the meaning of the Holocaust for postwar German films and culture, while offering a reconsideration of trauma theory today. Elsaesser argues that Germany's attempts at "mastering the past" can be seen as both a failure and an achievement, making it appropriate to speak of an ongoing 'guilt management' that includes not only Germany, but Europe as a whole. In a series of case studies, which consider the work of Konrad Wolf, Alexander Kluge, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Herbert Achterbusch and Harun Farocki, as well as films made in the new century, Elsaesser tracks the different ways the Holocaust is present in German cinema from the 1950s onwards, even when it is absent, or referenced in oblique and hyperbolic ways. Its most emphatically "absent presence" might turn out to be the compulsive afterlife of the Red Army Faction, whose acts of terror in the 1970s were a response to—as well as a reminder of—Nazism’s hold on the national imaginary. Since the end of the Cold War and 9/11, the terms of the debate around terror and trauma have shifted also in Germany, where generational memory now distributes the roles of historical agency and accountability differently. Against the background of universalized victimhood, a cinema of commemoration has, if anything, confirmed the violence that the past continues to exert on the present, in the form of missed encounters, retroactive incidents, unintended slippages and uncanny parallels, which Elsaesser—reviving the full meaning of Freud’s Fehlleistung—calls the parapractic performativity of cultural memory.
Author : Sabine Hake
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292734586
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Popular Cinema of the Third Reich written by Sabine Hake and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often dismissed as escapist entertainment or vilified as mass manipulation, popular cinema in the Third Reich was in fact sustained by well-established generic conventions, cultural traditions, aesthetic sensibilities, social practices, and a highly developed star system—not unlike its Hollywood counterpart in the 1930s. This pathfinding study contributes to the ongoing reassessment of Third Reich cinema by examining it as a social, cultural, economic, and political practice that often conflicted with, contradicted, and compromised the intentions of the Propaganda Ministry. Nevertheless, by providing the illusion of a public sphere presumably free of politics, popular cinema helped to sustain the Nazi regime, especially during the war years. Rather than examining Third Reich cinema through overdetermined categories such as propaganda, ideology, or fascist aesthetics, Sabine Hake concentrates on the constituent elements shared by most popular cinemas: famous stars, directors, and studios; movie audiences and exhibition practices; popular genres and new trends in set design; the reception of foreign films; the role of film criticism; and the representation of women. She pays special attention to the forced coordination of the industry in 1933, the changing demands on cinema during the war years, and the various ways of coming to terms with these filmic legacies after the war. Throughout, Hake's findings underscore the continuities among Weimar, Third Reich, and post-1945 West German cinema. They also emphasize the codevelopment of German and other national cinemas, especially the dominant Hollywood model.
Author : Robert C. Reimer
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 158510857X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)
Download or read book German Culture through Film written by Robert C. Reimer and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Robert C. Reimer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810876116
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The A to Z of German Cinema written by Robert C. Reimer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German film is diverse and multi-faceted; its history includes five distinct German governments (Wilhelmine Germany, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German Democratic Republic), two national industries (Germany and Austria), and a myriad of styles and production methods. Paradoxically, the political disruptions that have produced these distinct film eras, as well as the natural inclination of artists to rebel and create new styles, allow for the construction of a narrative of German film. While the disjuncture generates distinct points of separation, it also highlights continuities between the ruptures. Outlining the richness of German film, The A to Z of German Cinema covers mainstream, alternative, and experimental film from 1895 to the present through a chronology, introductory essay, appendix of the 100 most significant German films, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on directors, actors, films, cinematographers, composers, producers, and major historical events that greatly affected the direction and development of German cinema. The book's broad canvas will lead students and scholars of cinema to appreciate the complex nature of German film.
Author : Stephan K. Schindler
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472069668
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Cosmopolitan Screen written by Stephan K. Schindler and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores German cinema's enthusiasm for and anxiety about the blurring of postwar cultural boundaries
Author : Stephen Brockmann
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571134689
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book A Critical History of German Film written by Stephen Brockmann and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of German film dealing with individual films as works of art has long been needed. Existing histories tend to treat cinema as an economic rather than an aesthetic phenomenon; earlier surveys that do engage with individual films do not include films of recent decades. This book treats representative films from the beginnings of German film to the present. Providing historical context through an introduction and interchapters preceding the treatments of each era's films, the volume is suitable for semester- or year-long survey courses and for anyone with an interest in German cinema. The films: The Student of Prague - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - The Last Laugh - Metropolis - The Blue Angel - M - Triumph of the Will - The Great Love - The Murderers Are among Us - Sun Seekers - Trace of Stones - The Legend of Paul and Paula - Solo Sunny - The Bridge - Young T rless - Aguirre, The Wrath of God - Germany in Autumn - The Marriage of Maria Braun - The Tin Drum - Marianne and Juliane - Wings of Desire - Maybe, Maybe Not - Rossini - Run Lola Run - Good Bye Lenin - Head On - The Lives of Others Stephen Brockmann is Professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University and past President of the German Studies Assocation.
Author : William Luhr
Publisher : New York : Ungar
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book World Cinema Since 1945 written by William Luhr and published by New York : Ungar. This book was released on 1987 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artikler om filmhistorien i 30 lande og verdensdele
Author : Robert C. Reimer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538119404
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of German Cinema written by Robert C. Reimer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of German film is diverse and multi-faceted. This volume can only suggest the richness of a film tradition that includes five distinct German governments [Wilhelmine Germany, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), s well as a reunited Germany], two national industries (Germany and Austria), and a myriad of styles and production methods. Paradoxically, the political disruptions that have produced these distinct film eras, as well as and the natural inclination of artists to rebel and create new styles, allow for construction of a narrative of German film. Disjuncture generates distinct points of separation, and yet also highlights continuities between the ruptures. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of German Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on directors, actors, films, cinematographers, composers, producers, and major historical events that greatly affected the direction and development of German cinema. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about German cinema.
Author : David Stewart Hull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (851 download)
Download or read book A Study of the German Cinema 1933-1945 written by David Stewart Hull and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571135960
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Post-Wall German Cinema and National History written by Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German history films that focus on utopianism and political dissent and their effect on German identity since 1989. Since unification, a radical shift has taken place in Germans' view of their country's immediate past, with 1989 replacing 1945 as the primary caesura. The cold-war division, the failed socialist state, the '68 student movement, and the Red Army Faction -- historical flashpoints involving political oppression, civil disobedience, and the longing for utopian solutions to social injustice -- have come to be seen as decisive moments in a collective history that unites East and West even as it divides them. Telling stories about a shared past, establishing foundational myths, and finding commonalities of experience are pivotal steps in the construction of national identity. Such nation-building is always incomplete, but the cinema provides an important forum in which notions of German history and national identity can be consumed, negotiated, and contested. This book looks at history films made since 1989, exploring how utopianism and political dissent have shaped German identity. It studies the genre - including popular successes, critical successes, and perceived failures - as a set of texts and a discursive network, gauging which conventions and storylines are resilient. At issue is the overriding question: to what extent do these films contribute to a narrative that legitimizes the German nation-state? Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien is Professor of Germanand The Courtney and Steven Ross Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College.
Author : S. Jonathan Wiesen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807855430
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (554 download)
Download or read book West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past written by S. Jonathan Wiesen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, S. Jonathan Wiesen explores how West German business leaders remade and marketed their public image in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. He challenges assumptions that West Germans - and industrialists in particular - were silent about the recent past during the years of denazification and reconstruction, revealing how German business leaders attempted to absolve themselves of responsibility for Nazi crimes while recasting themselves as socially and culturally engaged public figures. Through case studies of individual firms such as Siemens and Krupp, Wiesen depicts corporate publicity as a telling example of postwar selective memory.
