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Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is the best-known filmmaker associated with the “Berlin School” of postunification German cinema. Identifying as an intellectual, Petzold self-consciously approaches his work for both the big and the small screen by weaving critical reflection on the very conditions of contemporary filmmaking into his approach. Archeologically reconstructing genre filmmaking in a national film production context that makes the production of genre cinema virtually impossible, he repeatedly draws on plots from classic films, including Alfred Hitchcock’s, in order to provide his viewers with the distinct pleasures only cinema can instill without, however, allowing his audience ...
Investigates the field of German life writing, from Rahel Levin Varnhagen around 1800 to Carmen Sylva a century later, from Döblin, Becher, women's WWII diaries, German-Jewish memoirs, and East German women's interview literatureto the autofiction of Lena Gorelik.
Contributors explore these films' transnational circuits of production, distribution, and exhibition, as well as how the films were made and received, thereby inviting us to reexamine the roots of what New German Cinema was and imagine what it might yet become.
This book addresses the intersection between gender and colonialism primarily in German colonialism. Gender and German Colonialism is concerned with colonialism as a historical phenomenon and with the repercussions and transformations of the colonial era in contemporary racist and sexist discourses and practices relating to refugees, migrants, and people of non-European descent living in Europe. This volume contributes to the broader effort of decolonization, with particular attention to concepts of gender. Rather than focus on only one European empire, it discusses and compares multiple former colonial powers in context. In addition to German colonialism, some chapters focus on the role of gender in Dutch and Belgian colonialism in Indonesia, Africa, and the Americas. This volume will be of value to students and scholars interested in women’s and gender studies, social and cultural history, and imperial and colonial history.
This volume of new essays represents a collective, academic, and activist effort to interpret German literature and culture in the context of the international #MeToo movement, illustrating and interrogating the ways that rape cultures persist.
Harun Farocki was one of the world’s most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred works, including political cinema, nonfiction film and video, and art installations, which have been exhibited globally. After his early politically engaged films in Super 8 and 16 mm, Farocki spent many years making independent films and commissions for German public television. In the last phase of his career, he transitioned to creating digital and multichannel installations. He also collaborated with the director Christian Petzold on a dozen films. In addition to his prolific media-making c...
Es gebe die Maler, die Musiker und die Literaten unter den Filmemachern – er selbst sei natürlich ein Literat, sagte Christian Petzold einmal in einem Interview. Man erkennt einen typischen Petzold-Film an seiner Sachlichkeit. Es wird auf pompöse Effekte und kinematografische Spielereien verzichtet, stattdessen aber durch subtile Narration eine zweite Ebene eröffnet: die der emotionalen Abgründe, der unaufgearbeiteten Geschichte und Morde. Beispiele hierfür sind "Phoenix" (2014), "Transit" (2018) und die drei "Polizeiruf-110"-Filme (2015-2018). Die Liebe ist das Band, das unwahrscheinliche Wendungen stiftet, etwa in "Jerichow" (2008) und "Undine" (2020). Die Cinephilie Petzolds übers...
Das komplette Angebot im Kino, Fernsehen und auf DVD/Blu-ray Für jeden Filminteressierten unverzichtbar: Auch für das Jahr 2012 bietet das Filmjahrbuch für jeden Film, der in Deutschland und der Schweiz im Kino, im Fernsehen oder auf DVD/Blu-ray gezeigt wurde, eine Kurzkritik und zeigt mit klaren Maßstäben inhaltliche Qualität und handwerkliches Können. Die Rubriken Die besten Kinofilme, Sehenswert 2011 und schließlich die Prämierung von rund 50 besonders herausragenden DVD-Editionen (der Silberling der Zeitschrift film-dienst) machen Lust, den einen oder anderen Film kennenzulernen oder ihn erneut anzusehen. Das Jahrbuch 2012 trägt der steigenden Zahl von Blu-ray-Editionen in eine...
Countering previous studies of violent images based on representational and, consequently, moralistic assumptions, which, the author argues, inevitably reinforce the very violence they critique. He explains how violent images work upon the world.
Nebraska Book Award, Special Poetry recognition More in Time is a celebration and tribute to Ted Kooser, two-time U.S. Poet Laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Presidential Professor of the University of Nebraska. Through personal reflections, essays, and creative works both inspired by and dedicated to Kooser, this collection shines a light on the many ways the midwestern poet has affected others as a teacher, mentor, colleague, and friend, as well as a fellow writer and observer-of-the-world. The creative responses included in this volume are reflective of the impact Kooser has had in his connections to other writers, while also revealing glimpses of his distinct way of seeing.