Use and Abuse of Cinema - German Legacies From the Weimar Era to the Present

Informationen zum Autor Eric Rentschler is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Chair of Film and Visual Studies Program at Harvard University Klappentext Eric Rentschler explores the screen fantasies and spectacles that derive from Germany's fraught modern experience and follows the traces of these sights and sounds to the postmillenial present. Each chapters contains a stirring minidrama! discussing prominent critics and theorists such as Siegfried Kracauer and Rudolf Arnheim; key New German directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Alexander Kluge; films from the so-called Berlin School! particularly those of Christoph Hochhäusler! Thomas Arslan! and Christian Petzold; and seminal genres such as the mountain film! the early sound musical! the postwar rubble film! and recent heritage cinema. Rentschler balances history and theory throughout his close readings. Zusammenfassung Explores the screen fantasies and spectacles that derive from Germany’s fraught modern experience

Product details

• Authors: Eric Rentschler, Rentschler Eric
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2015
• EAN: 9780231073639
• ISBN: 978-0-231-07363-9
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film and Culture Series; Film & Culture (COUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Germany, 20th Century, 21st Century, Films, cinema, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General