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Author : Jaimey Fisher
Release : 2018-06-04
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts by : Jaimey Fisher
Download or read book The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts written by Jaimey Fisher. This book was released on 2018-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will be of great interest to scholars of German and global cinema.
Author : Marco Abel
Release : 2025-01-14
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 920/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts by : Marco Abel
Download or read book New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts written by Marco Abel. This book was released on 2025-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors explore these films' transnational circuits of production, distribution, and exhibition, as well as how the films were made and received, thereby inviting us to reexamine the roots of what New German Cinema was and imagine what it might yet become.
Author : Geoff King
Release : 2021-10-07
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis The Cinema of Discomfort by : Geoff King
Download or read book The Cinema of Discomfort written by Geoff King. This book was released on 2021-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we understand types of cinema that offer experiences of discomfort, awkwardness or disquieting uncertainty? This book examines a number of examples of such work at the heart of contemporary art and indie film. While the commercial mainstream tends to offer comforting viewing experiences or moments of discomfort that exist largely to be overcome The Cinema of Discomfort analyses films in which discomfort is offered in a sustained manner. Cinema of this kind confronts us with material such as distinctly uncomfortable sexual encounters. It invites us into uncertain relationships with awkward and sometimes unlikable characters. It presents us with challenging behaviour or what are presented as uncomfortable realities. It often refuses information on which to base judgments. More discomfortingly, cinema of this kind tends to provoke uncertainty at the level of what emotional responses we are encouraged to have towards difficult, sometimes controversial, characters or events. The Cinema of Discomfort examines a number of case-studies, including Palindromes by Todd Solondz (US) and Dogtooth from Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece), along with other examples from Austria, Sweden, the UK, the US and Germany. Offering close textual analysis of the manner in which discomfort is generated, it also asks how we should understand the appeal of such work to certain viewers and how the existence of films of this kind can be explained, as products of both their socio-cultural context and the more particular institutional realms of art and indie film.
Author : Olivia Landry
Release : 2019-02-08
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Movement and Performance in Berlin School Cinema by : Olivia Landry
Download or read book Movement and Performance in Berlin School Cinema written by Olivia Landry. This book was released on 2019-02-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a study of the contemporary German film movement the Berlin School, Olivia Landry examines how narrative film has responded to our highly digitalized and mediatized age, not with a focus on stasis and realism, but by turning back to movement, spectacle, and performance. She argues that a preoccupation with presence, liveness, and affect—all of which are viewed as critical components of live performance—can be found in many of the films of the Berlin School. Challenging the perception that the Berlin School is a sheer adherent of "slow cinema," Landry closely analyzes the use of movement, dynamism, presence, and speed in a broad selection of films to show how filmmakers such as Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec, Thomas Arslan, and Christoph Hochhäusler invoke the pulse of the kinesthetic and the tangibly affective. Her analysis draws on an array of film theories from early materialism to body theories, phenomenology, and contemporary affect theories. Arguing that these theories readily and energetically forge a path from film to performance, Landry traces a trajectory between the two through which live experience, presence, spectacle, intersubjectivity, and the body in motion emerge and powerfully intersect. Ultimately, Movement and Performance in Berlin School Cinema expands the methodological and disciplinary boundaries of film studies by offering new ways of articulating and understanding movement in cinema.
Author : Robert C. Reimer
Release : 2019-07-15
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of German Cinema by : Robert C. Reimer
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of German Cinema written by Robert C. Reimer. This book was released on 2019-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of German film is diverse and multi-faceted. This volume can only suggest the richness of a film tradition that includes five distinct German governments [Wilhelmine Germany, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), s well as a reunited Germany], two national industries (Germany and Austria), and a myriad of styles and production methods. Paradoxically, the political disruptions that have produced these distinct film eras, as well as and the natural inclination of artists to rebel and create new styles, allow for construction of a narrative of German film. Disjuncture generates distinct points of separation, and yet also highlights continuities between the ruptures. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of German Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on directors, actors, films, cinematographers, composers, producers, and major historical events that greatly affected the direction and development of German cinema. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about German cinema.
