Includes bibliographic references (pages 295-309) and index.
Contents:
6. Refiguring National Cinema in Films about Labour, Money, and Debt. 2. Producing German Cinema for the World : Global Blockbusters from Location Germany -- 3. From Everyday Life to the Crisis Ordinary : Films of Ordinary Life and the Resonance of DEFA -- 4. Future Feminism : Political Filmmaking and the Resonance of the West German Feminist Film Movement -- 5. The Failing Family : Changing Constellations of Gender, Intimacy, and Genre -- 6. Refiguring National Cinema in Films about Labour, Money, and Debt.
Summary:
This book presents a new history of German film from 1980-2010, a period that witnessed rapid transformations, including intensified globalization, a restructured world economy, geopolitical realignment, and technological change, all of which have affected cinema in fundamental ways. Rethinking the conventional periodization of German film history, Baer posits 1980-rather than 1989-as a crucial turning point for German cinema's embrace of a new market orientation and move away from the state-sponsored film culture that characterized both DEFA and the New German Cinema. Reading films from East, West, and post-unification Germany together, Baer argues that contemporary German cinema is characterized most strongly by its origins in and responses to advanced capitalism. Informed by a feminist approach and in dialogue with prominent theories of contemporary film, the book places a special focus on how German films make visible the neoliberal recasting of gender and national identities around the new millennium.
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