{"product_id":"german-ways-of-war-the-affective-geographies-and-generic-transformations-of-german-war-films-9781978829183","title":"German Ways of War: The Affective Geographies and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGerman Ways of War\u003c\/i\u003e deploys theories of space, mobility, and affect to investigate how war films realize their political projects. Analyzing films across the decades, from the 1910s to 2000s, \u003ci\u003eGerman Ways of War\u003c\/i\u003e addresses an important lacuna in media studies: while scholars have tended to focus on the similarities between cinematic looking and weaponized targeting -- between shooting a camera and discharging a gun – this book argues that war films negotiate spaces throughout that frame their violence in ways more revealing than their battle scenes. Beyond that well-known intersection of visuality and violence, \u003ci\u003eGerman Ways of War\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the genre frames violence within spatio-affective operations. The production of novel spaces and evocation of new affects transform war films, including the genre’s manipulation of mobility, landscape, territory, scales, and topological networks. Such effects amount to what author Jaimey Fisher terms the films’ “affective geographies” that interweave narrative-generated affects, spatial depictions, and political processes.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGerman Ways of War \u003c\/i\u003eis an engaging text that charts out a captivating genre history that extends far beyond its immediate scope of German War films. The book is written as a fascinating account to how warfare changed in the twentieth century. . .  The project is meticulously researched and provides invaluable political, historical, and legal documentation regarding war and peace policies in Germany.\" -- Nora M. Alter * author of Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema 1967-2000 *\u003cbr\u003e\"This original study of exemplary German features probes essential dimensions of war cinema that have received little scholarly attention, its geopolitical determinations, spatial imaginaries, and affective geographies. A major contribution to film history and media studies, \u003ci\u003eGerman Ways of War o\u003c\/i\u003effers a comprehensive analysis of the numerous countenances and different functions this generic possibility has assumed in exemplary German productions from World War I to the postmillennial era.” -- Eric Rentschler * author of The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGerman Ways of War \u003c\/i\u003eis an engaging text that charts out a captivating genre history that extends far beyond its immediate scope of German War films. The book is written as a fascinating account to how warfare changed in the twentieth century. . .  The project is meticulously researched and provides invaluable political, historical, and legal documentation regarding war and peace policies in Germany.\" -- Nora M. Alter * author of Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema 1967-2000 *\u003cbr\u003e\"This original study of exemplary German features probes essential dimensions of war cinema that have received little scholarly attention, its geopolitical determinations, spatial imaginaries, and affective geographies. A major contribution to film history and media studies, \u003ci\u003eGerman Ways of War o\u003c\/i\u003effers a comprehensive analysis of the numerous countenances and different functions this generic possibility has assumed in exemplary German productions from World War I to the postmillennial era.” -- Eric Rentschler * author of The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction: The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e 1910s-2000s\u003cbr\u003e2. Land into Landscape, Landscape into Territory: Transformations of Space in German War Cinema, 1914-1918 (\u003ci\u003eThe Diary of Dr. Hart\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSword and Hearth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInexpiable\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e3. “Landscapes of Death” and Memories of the Human:  Distance, Scale, and the Double Map in the First “War-Sound-Film” (\u003ci\u003eWestfront 1918\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKameradschaft\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e4. Combat Films and their Aerial Spaces under the Nazi Regime (\u003ci\u003eMedal of Honor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSquadron Lützow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAbove Everything in the World\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e5. Out of the War Mode: Demobilizing the War Genre in the Postwar Rubble-Film (\u003ci\u003eRequest Concert\u003c\/i\u003e [1940], \u003ci\u003eThe Great Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWays into Twilight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sons of Mr. Gaspary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBirds of Migration\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e6. War in the Reconstructive 1950s: Genre, Espionage, and Cold-War Subjectivities in the 1950s War Film (\u003ci\u003eCanaris\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFox of Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRommel Calls Cairo\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e7. Conclusion: Affective Geographies of the Fading Genre (\u003ci\u003eDas Boot\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDownfall\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography  \u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49415260635479,"sku":"9781978829183","price":107.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978829183.jpg?v=1730526415","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/german-ways-of-war-the-affective-geographies-and-generic-transformations-of-german-war-films-9781978829183","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}