The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School

The first book-length study in any language of the "Berlin School," the most significant filmmaking movement to come out of Germany since the 1970s.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: So This Was Germany - A Preliminary Account of the Berlin School
Note on Translations
Thomas Arslan: Realism beyond Identity
Christian Petzold: Heimat-Building as Utopia
Angela Schanelec: Narrative, Understanding, Language
Revolver Cinema and Électrons libres: Cinema Must Be Dangerous
Christoph Hochhäusler: Intensifying Life
Benjamin Heisenberg: Filming Simply as Resistance
Valeska Grisebach: A Sharpening of Our Regard
Maren Ade: Filming between Sincerity and Irony
Ulrich Köhler: The Politics of Refusal
Conclusion: A Counter-Cinema
Filmography
Bibliography

About the author

Marco Abel

Product details

• Authors: Marco Abel, Marco (Customer) Abel
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2015
• EAN: 9781571139412
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-941-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 231 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 571 g
• Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual; Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet