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ROY GRUNDMANN, author of Andy Warhol's Blow Job --
What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept "ex-"—meaning from, outside, and no longer—Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video. Ex-Cinema is a sustained reflection on the ways in which experimental media artists move outside the conventions of mainstream cinema and initiate a dialogue on the meaning of cinema itself.
From star players to rioting fans, The People's Game examines how football shaped the history of communist East Germany.
Richard Mathias Mueller was part of the Hitler Youth when he became a German soldier during WW II. He was imprisoned in an Allied camp in 1945, and narrowly escaped with his life. Years later, he discovered the writings of Canadian author James Bacque whose best-selling books recount the atrocities committed by the American and French troops against German prisoners. In 1991, Mueller contacted Bacque and a prolific correspondence began. The letters the two exchangedcollected in Dear Enemy for the first timehotly debate the controversial issues of WW II and the lasting effects it has had. Their discussions include prison camps, Germanys guilt, the Holocaust and, more recently, the alarming rise of the Right in European politics.
The release of Rangda threatens the future of humanity. But, what if, we could turn back time? The Divine Finalisation is the final book in The Divine Zetan Trilogy. It takes place straight after the events of The Divine Sedition. Hilda Muller witnesses Keila massacring the Terran Council leaders, when the Xeno horde attacks. Hilda Muller fights the Xenos and becomes one of few survivors from the attack on Rashidium City. Sensing the opportunity to seize power, Hilda leads the human army against the Xenos. The Terran troops force the alien invaders to retreat to the Divine Dimension. Meanwhile, Rangda influences Melchior Dorevitch to commit unspeakable atrocities against the Martian population. Inspired by Rangda, Melchior raises an army of human/Xeno mutants to help Rangda defeat her eternal enemies: the Zetans. On Eden, Metatron is grieving Keila and uses a surrogate mother to give birth to his and Keila’s daughter Sabina. Sabina turns out to be the messiah of the 29th century, as she has a special connection to the supreme deity, The True Maker. But is Sabina strong enough to face the monstrosity Rangda, whose powers are increasing every day?
On German homosexual cinema
"Over the past twenty-five years, Scott MacDonald's kaleidoscopic explorations of independent cinema have become the most important chronicle of avant-garde and experimental film in the United States. In this collection of thematically related personal essays and conversations with filmmakers, he takes us on a fascinating journey into many under-explored territories of cinema. MacDonald illuminates topics including race and avant-garde film, the political implications of the nature film, the inventive single shot films of the late 1960s and early 1970s, why men use pornography and what they are looking at when they do, poetry and the poetic in avant-garde film, the widespread failure of film studies academicians to honor those who keep film exhibition alive, and other topics. Several of the interviews--those with Korean filmmaker Gina Kim, French nature filmmakers Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou (Microcosmos), Canadian media artist Clive Holden, formalist/conceptualist David Gatten, and New York's Film Forum director Karen Cooper--are the first substantial conversations with these filmmakers available in English."--Publisher's description.
A Critical Cinema 5 is the fifth volume in Scott MacDonald's Critical Cinema series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English.
In this collection leading international authorities analyse the structures and economic functions of non-agrarian centres between ca. 500 and 1000 A.D. – their trade, their surrounding settlements, and the agricultural and cultural milieux. The thirty-one papers presented at an international conference held in Bad Homburg focus on recent archaeological discoveries in Central Europe (Vol.1), as well as onthose from southeastern Europe to Asia Minor (Vol. 2).
Filmmaking in Germany and Austria has changed dramatically with digitalization and the use of video and the Internet. Introducing the work of filmmakers, this volume offers an assessments of the intent and effect of their productions, and describes overall trends.