Postwall German cinema : history, film history and cinephilia /
Frey, Mattias.
Postwall German cinema : history, film history and cinephilia / Mattias Frey. - First edition. - x, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Film Europa: German cinema in an international context .
Includes filmography. Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index.
Introduction -- Rebirth of a nation: Das Wunder von Bern, the 1950s, and the reactions to the new German cinema -- Pop retro-vision: Baader, Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, and the RAF film -- The ambivalent view: 23, historical paranoia, and the 1980s -- "Ostalgie," historical ownership, and material authenticity: Good bye, Lenin! and Das Leben der Anderen -- Unification, spatial anxiety, and the recuperation of material culture: Die unberhrbare -- The future of the German past.
With in-depth analyses of the major trends and films, this book represents a comprehensive assessment of the historical film in postwall Germany. Challenging previous paradigms, it takes account of a postwall cinema of retro-flection as a complex engagement with various historiographical forms and, above all, with film history itself.
9780857459473 (hbk.) 9781782389026
2013003081
Germans in motion pictures.
History in motion pictures.
Historical films--History and criticism.--Germany
Germany--in motion pictures.
PN 1995.9.G45 / F893p 2013
791.43
Postwall German cinema : history, film history and cinephilia / Mattias Frey. - First edition. - x, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Film Europa: German cinema in an international context .
Includes filmography. Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index.
Introduction -- Rebirth of a nation: Das Wunder von Bern, the 1950s, and the reactions to the new German cinema -- Pop retro-vision: Baader, Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, and the RAF film -- The ambivalent view: 23, historical paranoia, and the 1980s -- "Ostalgie," historical ownership, and material authenticity: Good bye, Lenin! and Das Leben der Anderen -- Unification, spatial anxiety, and the recuperation of material culture: Die unberhrbare -- The future of the German past.
With in-depth analyses of the major trends and films, this book represents a comprehensive assessment of the historical film in postwall Germany. Challenging previous paradigms, it takes account of a postwall cinema of retro-flection as a complex engagement with various historiographical forms and, above all, with film history itself.
9780857459473 (hbk.) 9781782389026
2013003081
Germans in motion pictures.
History in motion pictures.
Historical films--History and criticism.--Germany
Germany--in motion pictures.
PN 1995.9.G45 / F893p 2013
791.43