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Author Rentschler, Eric.

Title The use and abuse of cinema : German legacies from the Weimar era to the present / Eric Rentschler
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Film and culture
Film and culture.
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?
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Motion pictures
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1336201967
9781336201965
9780231539395
0231539398
9780231073639
0231073631