German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism / / Hester Baer.

• Superior document: Film Culture in Transition
• VerfasserIn: Baer, Hester,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Film culture in transition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Making Neoliberalism Visible --; 1. German Cinema and the Neoliberal Turn : The End of the National-Cultural Film Project --; 2. Producing German Cinema for the World : Global Blockbusters from Location Germany --; 3. From Everyday Life to the Crisis Ordinary : Films of Ordinary Life and the Resonance of DEFA --; 4. Future Feminism : Political Filmmaking and the Resonance of the West German Feminist Film Movement --; 5. The Failing Family: Changing Constellations of Gender, Intimacy, and Genre --; 6. Refiguring National Cinema in Films about Labour, Money, and Debt --; Conclusion: German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism --; Bibliography --; Index
• ISBN: 9048551951
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hester Baer.

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. Rethinking the conventional periodization of German film history, Baer posits 1980-rather than 1989-as a crucial turning point for German cinema's embrace of a new market orientation and move away from the state-sponsored film culture that characterized both DEFA and the New German Cinema. Reading films from East, West, and post-unification Germany together, Baer argues that contemporary German cinema is characterized most strongly by its origins in and responses to advanced capitalism. Informed by a feminist approach and in dialogue with prominent theories of contemporary film, the book places a special focus on how German films make visible the neoliberal recasting of gender and national identities around the new millennium.