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Postwall German cinema : history, film history and cinephilia / Mattias Frey.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Film Europa: German cinema in an international contextPublisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: x, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780857459473 (hbk.)
  • 9781782389026
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43
LOC classification:
  • PN 1995.9.G45 F893p 2013
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1995.9.G45 F893p 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 Available 00000117571

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.

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