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The Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies) by Brad Prager, Brad Prager, Jaimey Fisher, Jaimey Fisher, Jennifer M. Kapczynski, Lutz Koepnick, Elisabeth Krimmer, Anna M. Parkinson, Wilfried Wilms, Johannes von Moltke, Michael D. Richardson, John E. Davidson, Marco Abel, Kristin Kopp, Roger F. Cook, Barbara Mennel is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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While difficult questions of history, culture, and politics figured less prominently in the lighter cinematic fare of the 1980s and 1990s, German filmmakers have recaptured the world's attention since the turn of the millennium with vital, dynamic, and engaged works. In fact, today's filmmakers have turned back to many themes that were important in the 1960s and 1970s, when a movement of young filmmakers proclaimed the collapse of existing filmmaking conventions. In The Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, editors Jaimey Fisher and Brad Prager present contributions from prominent German film studies scholars to examine the current politically charged and provocative moment in German filmmaking historically, ideologically, and formally as another break with cinematic convention. Fisher and Prager introduce the volume with a look back at the history of German film to define New German Cinema and identify the themes and motives that characterize its films and filmmakers. In the first section, essays explore the cinematic treatment of German national identity in historical films, including those that confront Germany's Nazi

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Author

Brad Prager, Brad Prager, Jaimey Fisher, Jaimey Fisher, Jennifer M. Kapczynski, Lutz Koepnick, Elisabeth Krimmer, Anna M. Parkinson, Wilfried Wilms, Johannes von Moltke, Michael D. Richardson, John E. Davidson, Marco Abel, Kristin Kopp, Roger F. Cook, Barbara Mennel

Publisher

Wayne State University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814333778

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Political Science