The Place of Politics in German Film
Blumenthal-Barby, Martin / Elsaesser, Thomas / Fenner, Angelica / Fisher, Jaimey / Gellen, Kata / Ge
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06.02.2014
Beschreibung
The book claims to explore the place of politics in German film might appear, in the eyes of the expert, naïve or, at best, overly ambitious given the sheer complexity and intricacy of the topic-assuming that indeed one agrees to speak of "one" topic. These plausible concerns appear even more valid if one considers that the essays in this volume do, in fact, explore overtly political questions addressed in seminal films ranging from the Wilhelmine era through the Weimar years and the Nazi period, the postwar years, East German cinema and West German. cinema, and finally postunification Germany.
Inhalt
Acknowledgments
Martin Blumenthal-Barby
Topologies of Film and Politics: Introduction
Nicholas Baer
Messianic Musclemen: Homunculus (1916) and Der Golem (1920) as Zionist Allegories
Kata Gellen
Real Estate, Residency, and Mobility: Circulation in Nosferatu
Anton Kaes
Urban Vision and Surveillance: Notes on a Moment in Karl Grune’s Die Straße
Valerie A. Weinstein
Third Reich Film Comedy as a Place of Politics: Masculinity, Marriage, and Mayhem in Karl Ritter’s Capriccio (1938)
Jaimey Fisher
The Scales of War (Films): The Sounds of Combat and Politics of Genre in Frank Wisbar’s Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959)
Thomas Elsaesser
Antigone Agonistes: Urban Guerilla or Guerilla Urbanism? The Red Army Faction, Germany in Autumn and Death Game
Christina Gerhardt
The RAF as German and Family History: Von Trotta’s Marianne and Juliane and Petzold’s The State I Am In
Larson Powell
The Spectral Politics of DEFA
Jennifer Ruth Hosek
Geographies of Power and Surveillance: Christian Petzold’s Gespenster Trilogy
Carsten Strathausen
The Space of Subjectivity in Berlin School Cinema
Angelica Fenner
The Gen(t)rification of Heimat: Framing Hamburg’s Creative Class in Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen (2009)
Brad Prager
Lars Kraume’s The Coming Days (2010) and the History of Tomorrow: Apocalypse Not Yet
Notes on Contributors
Index