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Informationen zum Autor Hester Baer is Associate Professor of German and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language . She currently serves as co-editor of the journal Feminist German Studies . Klappentext This book presents a new history of German film from 1980-2010, a period that witnessed rapid transformations, including intensified globalization, a restructured world economy, geopolitical realignment, and technological change, all of which have affected cinema in fundamental ways. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1. German Cinema and the Neoliberal Turn: The End of the National-Cultural Film Project, Chapter 2. Producing German Cinema for the World: Global Blockbusters from Location Germany, Chapter 3. From Everyday Life to the Crisis Ordinary: Films of Ordinary Life and the Resonance of DEFA, Chapter 4. Future Feminism: Political Filmmaking and the Resonance of the West German Feminist Film Movement, Chapter 5. The Failing Family: Changing Constellations of Gender, Intimacy, and Genre, Chapter 6. Refiguring National Cinema in Films about Labour, Money, and Debt, Conclusion. German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism, Bibliography, Index