Description
Book SynopsisContemporary German cinema is aimed at students of European and world cinema. It is wide-ranging, articulate and geared toward cinema and film studies. -- .
Trade ReviewPaul Cook delivers an eminently readable and engaging analysis... This excellent study will serve as a go-to resource for undergraduates and specialists alike, and is likely to find its way onto many course syllabi. The readings of films and thematic discussions are accessible even for those who have limited knowledge of the film corpus -- .
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction
Contemporary German Cinema: Mapping the Terrain
1. Financing Cinema in Germany: Art, Entertainment or Commerce?
2. Representational Strategies and Questions of Realism
3. Heritage Cinema, Authenticity and Dealing with Germany’s Past
4. Transnational Cinema, Globalisation and Multicultural Germany
5. ‘German Cinema Today is Female’: Gender and the legacies of the Frauenfilm
6. Visions of America across the Generations
7. The Heimat Film: Reconfiguring ‘Papas Kino’
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