TY - BOOK ID - 85716928 TI - German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism PY - 2021 SN - 9048551951 PB - Amsterdam University Press DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures KW - Neoliberalism in motion pictures. KW - HISTORY / Europe / Germany. KW - History and criticism. KW - German film, neoliberalism, economic change, feminism, national cinema. KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85716928 AB - 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. ER -