| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Film and culture |
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Film and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Introduction: History Lessons and Courses in Time; Part I. Critical Venues; 1. How a Social Critic Became a Formative Theorist; 2. Hunger for Experience, Spectatorship, and the Seventies; 3. The Passenger and the Critical Critic; 4. The Limits of Aesthetic Resistance; 5. Springtime for Ufa; Part II. Serials and Cycles; 6. Mountains and Modernity; 7. Too Lovely to Be True; 8. The Management of Shattered Identity; 9. After the War, Before the Wall; Part III. From Oberhausen to Bitburg; 10. Remembering Not to Forget; 11. Many Ways to Fight a Battle; 12. How American Is It? |
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13. The Use and Abuse of Memory14. A Cinema of Citation; 15. The Declaration of Independents; Part IV. Postwall Projects; 16. An Archaeology of the Berlin School; 17. The Surveillance Camera's Quarry; 18. Heritages and Histories; 19. Life in the Shadows; 20. Two Trips to the Berlinale; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index. |
| Summary |
Eric Rentschler explores the screen fantasies and spectacles that derive from Germany's fraught modern experience and follows the traces of these sights and sounds to the postmillenial present. Each chapters contains a stirring minidrama, discussing prominent critics and theorists such as Siegfried Kracauer and Rudolf Arnheim; key New German directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Alexander Kluge; films from the so-called Berlin School, particularly those of Christoph Hochhäusler, Thomas Arslan, and Christian Petzold; and seminal genres such as the mountain film, the early sound musical. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion picture industry.
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Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01027285
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rentschler, Eric. Use and Abuse of Cinema : German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2015 9780231073639 |
| ISBN |
1336201967 (electronic bk.) |
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9781336201965 (electronic bk.) |
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9780231539395 (electronic bk.) |
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0231539398 (electronic bk.) |
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