Transnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism - Radical Aesthetics, Radical Politics

Posits a new, aesthetically and politically radical, transnational German cinema - "transnational" also in the sense of concerns with migration, the movement of capital across borders, and globalization.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction - Claudia Breger and Olivia Landry
Part I. Radical Pessimism as a Form of Resistance: Political Drama in the Age of Surplus Humanity and New Fascism
1. Transit (2018) and Postfascism - Angelos Koutsourakis
2. "Her mit dem schönen Leben": Happiness and Access in Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020) - Priscilla Layne
3. Negative Futurability and the Politics of Pessimism in Fatih Ak¿n's Aus dem Nichts (2017) - Gozde Naiboglu
Part II. Rethinking the Evidence: New Documentary Forms
4. Forensic Fallacies - Lutz Koepnick
5. The Border as Abjecting Apparatus: Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea (2020) and Purple Sea (2019) - Randall Halle
6. The Politics of the Machinic Voice in Gerd Kroske's Documentary SPK Komplex (2018) - Olivia Landry
Part III. Reassembling the Archives of Radical Filmmaking
7. Marking Time after Utopia - Richard Langston
8. Remediations of Cinefeminism in Contemporary German Film - Hester Baer
9. A Few Takes toward Reassembling (the Dream of) the People: Julian Radlmaier's Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes (2017) - Claudia Breger
Part IV. Intimate Connections: Aesthetics and Politics of a Cinema of Relations
10. Choric Configurations and the Collective: Ruth Beckermann's Films - Fatima Naqvi
11. Aerial Aesthetics, Queer Intimacy, and the Politics of Repose in the Cinema of Nils Bökamp and Monika Treut - Ervin Malakaj
12. Between Observational Detachment and Affective Attachment: The Posthumanist Pedagogy of Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse (2021) - Angelica Fenner
Notes on the Contributors
Index

About the author

Edited by Claudia Breger and Olivia Landry

Summary

Posits a new, aesthetically and politically radical, transnational German cinema - "transnational" also in the sense of concerns with migration, the movement of capital across borders, and globalization.

Product details

• Assisted by: Claudia Breger (Editor), Professor Claudia Breger (Editor), Olivia Landry (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2024
• EAN: 9781640141520
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-152-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 513 g
• Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education