Postwall German Cinema : : History, Film History and Cinephilia / / Mattias Frey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Frey, Mattias,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Film Europa ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (218 p.)

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a proliferation of German historical films. These productions have earned prestigious awards and succeeded at box offices both at home and abroad, where they count among the most popular German films of all time. Recently, however, the country’s cinematic take on history has seen a significant new development: the radical style, content, and politics of the New German Cinema. With in-depth analyses of the major trends and films, this book represents a comprehensive assessment of the historical film in today’s Germany. Challenging previous paradigms, it takes account of a postwall cinema that complexly engages with various historiographical forms and, above all, with film history itself.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Rebirth of a Nation: Das Wunder von Bern, the 1950s, and the Reactions to the New German Cinema -- Chapter 2 Pop Retro-vision: Baader, Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, and the RAF Film -- Chapter 3 The Ambivalent View: 23, Historical Paranoia, and the 1980s -- Chapter 4 “Ostalgie,” Historical Ownership, and Material Authenticity: Good Bye, Lenin! and Das Leben der Anderen -- Chapter 5 Unification, Spatial Anxiety, and the Recuperation of Material Culture: Die Unberührbare -- Chapter 6 The Future of the German Past -- Select Bibliography -- Index