Some essays are based on presentations initially delivered at a symposium, "The Place of Politics in German Film," hosted by the Rice University Department of German Studies and the Rice Humanities Research Center, 2010. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Topologies of film and politics: Introduction / Martin Blumenthal-Barby -- Messianic musclemen : Homunculus (1916) and Der Golem (1920) as Zionist allegories / Nicholas Baer -- Real estate, residency, and mobility : circulation in Nosferatu / Kata Gellen -- Urban vision and surveillance : notes on a moment in Karl Grune's Die Strasse / Anton Kaes -- Third Reich film comedy as a place of politics : masculinity, marriage, and mayhem in Karl Ritter's Capriccio (1938) / Valerie A. Weinstein -- 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) / Jaimey Fisher -- Antigone Agonistes : urban guerilla or guerilla urbanism? : the Red Army faction, Germany in Autumn and Death Game / Thomas Elsaesser -- The RAF as German and family history : Von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane and Petzold's The State I Am In / Christina Gerhardt -- The spectral politics of DEFA / Larson Powell -- Geographies of power and surveillance : Christian Petzold's Gepenster trilogy / Jennifer Ruth Hosek -- The space of subjectivity in Berlin School cinema / Carsten Strathausen -- The Gen(t)rification of Heimat : framing Hamburg's creative class in Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen (2009) / Angelica Fenner -- Lars Kraume's The Coming Days (2010) and the history of tomorrow : Apocalypse not yet / Brad Prager.
Summary:
"This collection of essays offers a discussion of film and its relation to the political in the broader sense. Encompassing roughly ten decades of German history, it touches on such pressing political themes as immigration policy, surveillance, war and terrorism. While these issues have stimulated considerable thought and debate in recent decades, this collection distinguishes itself by asking to what degree each film's mode of presentation, its cinematic qualities and aesthetic specificities, complicates the issues explicitly discussed. The Place of Politics in German Film thus shows the way in which key German filmmakers challenge and disturb the relation between filmic form and politics, medium and message"--Publisher description.
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