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Informationen zum Autor Caryl Flinn is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Strains of Utopia: Nostalgia! Gender! and Hollywood Film Music (1992) and coeditor of Music and Cinema (2001). Klappentext "An original! intelligent! and insightful book. Over the past twenty years! the New German Cinema has been the topic of some of our most sophisticated studies of memory! history! and political identity. Flinn extends! deepens! and expands on this work to offer necessary insights about music! cinema! and national identity in postwar Germany. With wit! rigor! and an engaging prose style! Flinn exposes the New German Cinema in its ability to dramatize a commitment to historical memory that is not sentimental! romanticized! or fueled by nationalist fervor. This is a remarkably innovative! transformative! and important work."-Patrice Petro! author of Aftershocks of the New: Feminism & Film History "Using the musical soundtrack as her 'Auftakt!' Caryl Flinn revisits melodrama and melancholia! camp and kitsch! and memory and shock in the works of such filmmakers as Fassbinder! Kluge! Ottinger! Treut! and Schroeter. The resulting intellectual counterpoint is dazzling. In the wake of this articulate analysis! the New German Cinema will never be the same again. In these 'leaden times' of ours! Flinn reminds us of the hope that an alternative aesthetics has to offer."-Alice Kuzniar! Professor of German and Comparative Literature! author of The Queer German Cinema Zusammenfassung Shows how music helps film goers engage with a range of historical subjects and experiences. This book examines queer strategies like kitsch and camp and explores the movement's charged construction of human bodies on which issues of ruination, survival, memory, and pleasure are played out. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: "Strategies of Remembrance" PART 1. HISTORICAL PREDECESSORS: MELODRAMA AND MODERNISM 1. Mourning! Melancholia! and "New German Melodrama" 2. Modernism's Aftershocks: Peer Raben's Film Music for Fassbinder PART 2. MUSIC AND THE MATERIALS OF HISTORY: ALEXANDER KLUGE 3. Kluge's Assault on History: Trauma! Testimony! and Difference in The Patriot 4. Undoing Act 5: History! Bodies! and Operatic Remains: Kluge's The Power of Emotion PART 3. QUEERING HISTORY THROUGH CAMP AND KITSCH 5. Restaging History with Fantasy: Body! Camp! and Sound in the Films of Treut! Ottinger! and von Praunheim 6. Introjecting Kitsch: Werner Schroeter! Music! and Alterity Coda: Working the Pieces Notes Index ...
