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Entertaining German Culture - Contemporary Transnational Television And Film

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 In an increasingly transnational production of film and television, Entertaining German Culture explores and contextually thematizes a radical shift in the past fifteen years towards a profound appreciation of German cultural and intellectual history in the international mainstream.
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Screening The East - Heimat, Memory And Nostalgia In German Film Since 1989

by Nick Hodgin

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 Screening the East considers German filmmakers' responses to unification. In particular, it traces the representation of the East German community in films made since 1989 and considers whether these narratives challenge or reinforce the notion of a separate East German identity.
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Willing Seduction - The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, And Mass Culture

by Barbara Kosta

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 This fascinating cultural history of The Blue Angel provides a new interpretive framework with which to approach this classic Weimar film and suggests that discourses on mass and high culture are integral to the film's thematic and narrative structure. These discourses surface above all in the relationship between the two main characters...
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Peter Lorre: Face Maker - Constructing Stardom And Performance In Hollywood And Europe

by Sarah Thomas

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 Peter Lorre described himself as merely a "face-maker." His own negative attitude also characterizes traditional perspectives on the actor's career which position Lorre as a tragic figure within film history: the promising European artist reduced to a Hollywood gimmick, unable to escape the murderous image of his role in Fritz Lang's M.
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Turkish German Cinema In The New Millennium - Sites, Sounds, And Screens

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 First book on Turkish German cinema An anthology featuring the main scholars working on the subject New methodologies to discuss the culture of migration Multiple approaches to minority cultural production in the contemporary European context
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Michael Haneke'S Cinema - The Ethic Of The Image

by Catherine Wheatley

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 Existing critical traditions fail to fully account for the impact of Austrian director, and 2009 Cannes Palm d'Or winner, Michael Haneke's films, situated as they are between intellectual projects and popular entertainments. This title is the first English-language introduction to, and critical analysis of, his work...
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Postwall German Cinema - History, Film History And Cinephilia

by Mattias Frey

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 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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Screening Art - Modernist Aesthetics And The Socialist Imaginary In East German Cinema

by Sean Allan

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 Screening Art represents the first full-length study of films about art and artists produced by the state-owned Eastern German film studio DEFA. It investigates the essential role that these "art films" played in the development of new paradigms of socialist art in post-war Europe.
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Rethinking Jewishness In Weimar Cinema

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 The film industry in the Weimar Republic was a major site for German-Jewish experience that provided a sphere for Jewish "outsiders" to shape mainstream culture. The essays in Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema offer new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the significant involvement of Jewish people in Weimar cinema.
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Sensitive Subjects - The Political Aesthetics Of Contemporary German And Austrian Cinema

by Leila Mukhida

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 Sensitive Subjects examines how contemporary German-language cinema may be read as seeking to produce greater political sensitivity in audiences through its formâ€"that is, by employing medium-specific devices such as lighting, sound, editing and mise-en-scÃ¨ne in ways that prompt a more critical stance towards the societies it depicts.
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Peter Lilienthal - A Cinema Of Exile And Resistance

by Claudia Sandberg

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 Peter Lilienthal is the first comprehensive study of Lilienthalâ€™s life and career, highlighting the distinctively cross-cultural and transnational dimensions of his oeuvre, and exploring his role as an early exemplar of a more vibrant and inclusive European film culture.
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Moving Frames - Photographs In German Cinema

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 Moving Frames addresses precise historical moments uniquely in a German context. Across films both in and outside the canon, this volume tackles those specific historical moments experienced in media forms to gauge the cultural, political, and transnational trends in humanityâ€™s desire for agency and how that agency is represented.
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German Television - Historical And Theoretical Perspectives

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 Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume collects penetrating essays on the distinctive theories, practices, and social-historical contexts that defined television in Germany.
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Framing The Fifties - Cinema In A Divided Germany

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 Based on cultural studies, gender studies, and the study of popular cinema, this anthology offers an account by focusing on popular genres, famous stars, and dominant practices, by taking into account the complicated relationships between East vs West German, German vs European, and European vs American cinemas.
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Destination London - German-Speaking Emigrés And British Cinema, 1925-1950

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 The legacy of emigres in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the Second World War, has been largely neglected in the scholarly literature. Destination London is the first book to redress this imbalance...
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Dismantling The Dream Factory - Gender, German Cinema, And The Postwar Quest For A New Film Language

by Hester Baer

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 The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer reassesses this period...
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Cinema Of Collaboration - Defa Coproductions And International Exchange In Cold War Europe

by Mariana Ivanova

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 Almost from their very inception, European cinemas frequently undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational "Film-Europe." Despite the significant obstacles that the East/West divide presented to achieving that ideal, in the postwar era it was DEFA where these practices persisted.
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East German Film And The Holocaust

by Elizabeth Ward

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 By combining close analyses of five films made between 1947 and 1988 with extensive archival research, this book unravels the complex status of films dealing with Jewish persecution produced in a country that consistently privileged narratives of political persecution above racial victimhood.
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Cinematically Transmitted Disease - Eugenics And Film In Weimar And Nazi Germany

by Barbara Hales

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 Propaganda played an essential role in influencing the attitudes and policies of German National Socialism on racial purity and euthanasia, but little has been said on the impact of medical hygiene films. Cinematically Transmitted Disease explores these films for the first time, from their inception during the Weimar era and throughout the years to come. In this innovative volume, author Barbara Hales demonstrates how medical films as well as feature films were circulated among the German people to embed and enforce notions of scientific legitimacy for racial superiority and genetically spread "incurable" diseases, creating and maintaining an instrumental fear of degradation in the German national population.
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Enchanted By Cinema - Wilhelm Thiele Between Vienna, Berlin, And Hollywood

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 William Thiele is remembered today as the father of the sound film operetta with seminal classics such as Drei von der Tankstelle (1930). While often considered among the most accomplished directors of Late Weimar cinema, as an Austrian Jew he was vilified during the onset of the Nazi regime in 1933 and fled to the United States where he continued making films until the end of his career in 1960. Enchanted by Cinema closely examines the European musical film pioneer’s work and his cross-cultural perspective across forty years of filmography in Berlin and Hollywood to account for his popularity while discussing issues of ethnicity, exile, comedy, music, gender, and race.
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Don'T Need No Thought Control - Western Culture In East Germany And The Fall Of The Berlin Wall

by Gerd Horten

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 Don't Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay between popular demands, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policy decisions during the Erich Honecker era in a comprehensive and comparative analysis.
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East German Film And The Holocaust

by Elizabeth Ward

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 By combining close analyses of five films made between 1947 and 1988 with extensive archival research, this book unravels the complex status of films dealing with Jewish persecution produced in a country that consistently privileged narratives of political persecution above racial victimhood.
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Entertaining German Culture - Contemporary Transnational Television And Film

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 In an increasingly transnational production of film and television, Entertaining German Culture explores and contextually thematizes a radical shift in the past fifteen years towards a profound appreciation of German cultural and intellectual history in the international mainstream.
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Rethinking Jewishness In Weimar Cinema

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 The film industry in the Weimar Republic was a major site for German-Jewish experience that provided a sphere for Jewish "outsiders" to shape mainstream culture. The essays in Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema offer new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the significant involvement of Jewish people in Weimar cinema.
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