"The Lives of Others" and Contemporary German Film : : A Companion /

"The Lives of Others" and Contemporary German Film : : A Companion / / ed. by Paul Cooke.

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This volume offers the first book-length academic investigation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others (2006). The aim of this edited collection is twofold. On the one hand, it offers new insight into one of the most successful German films of the past two decad...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Bathrick, David,
Cooke, Paul,
Fisher, Jaimey,
Fleishman, Ian Thomas,
Hake, Sabine,
Halle, Randall,
Henckel von Donnersmarck, Florian,
Koepnick, Lutz,
Rentschler, Eric,
Rinke, Andrea,
Silberman, Marc,
Wilke, Manfred,
HerausgeberIn:
Cooke, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Companions to Contemporary German Culture , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. The Lives of Others and Contemporary German Film
  • I. Making the Film
  • Chapter One. Seeing a Film Before You Make It
  • Chapter Two. Wiesler’s Turn to Dissidence and the History behind the Film
  • Chapter Three. The Lives of Others, the New Matrix of Production and the Profitable Past
  • Chapter Four. A Historical Sort of Stardom: Casting, Ulrich Mühe, and The Lives of Others’ Authenticity Problem
  • II. Re-positioning the Film
  • Chapter Five. Fear and (Self-)Loathing in East Berlin: Gender and Melodrama in The Lives of Others
  • Chapter Six. Der Tangospieler: Coming in from the Cold Once and for All? The Lives of Others as Cold War Spy film
  • Chapter Seven. The Lives of Others: Screenplay as Literature and the Literary Film
  • Chapter Eight. International ‘Auditorism’: The Postnational Politics of Interpretation of von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others
  • III. Beyond the Film
  • Chapter Nine. The Sounds of Others
  • Chapter Ten. On the Lives of Objects
  • Chapter Eleven. Von Donnersmarck’s Dialogue with Hollywood: from The Lives of Others to The Tourist (2010)
  • Chapter Twelve. The Lives of Others: The History of Heritage and the Rhetoric of Consensus
  • Bibliography
  • Film Credits. Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, 2006, Germany), 137 Minutes
  • List of Illustrations
  • Contributors
  • Index

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