TY - BOOK AU - Frey,Mattias TI - Postwall German cinema: history, film history and cinephilia T2 - Film Europa: German cinema in an international context SN - 9780857459473 (hbk.) AV - PN 1995.9.G45 F893p 2013 U1 - 791.43 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Berghahn Books KW - Germans in motion pictures KW - History in motion pictures KW - Historical films KW - Germany KW - History and criticism KW - in motion pictures N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -