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Like every history, the history of film can be grasped not just as a temporal phenomenon, but also within the specificity with which it has inscribed itself into concrete places. The question of how this has occurred at different points in German film history forms the starting point of this book. Using five examples, it explores the social and political horizons of heterotopic concepts of space in German film from the 1930s to the 1990s: Hamburg in Werner Hochbaum's A Girl Goes Ashore [Ein Mädchen geht an Land], East Berlin in Günter Reisch's Ein Lord am Alexanderplatz, Munich in the early works of Wim Wenders, the passage from New York to Athens and Santorini via Berlin in Rudolf Thome's Die Sonnegöttin, and the reunified Berlin in Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run [Lola rennt]. The main points of interest are the poetological devices the films use to portray their settings. By uniting topology and film aesthetics, this book opens up spaces of historic experience that provide film historiography with new insights. Wie jede Geschichte lässt sich auch die des Films nicht nur als zeitliches Phänomen fassen, sondern auch in der Spezifik betrachten, mit der sie sich in konkrete Orte eingeschrieben hat. Die Frage, wie dies zu verschiedenen Zeitpunkten der deutschen Filmgeschichte geschehen ist, bildet den Ausgangspunkt des Buches. An fünf Beispielen erkundet es die gesellschaftlichen und politischen Horizonte heterotopischer Raumkonzepte des deutschen Films von den 1930er bis in die 1990er Jahre: Hamburg in Werner Hochbaums Ein Mädchen geht an Land, Ost-Berlin in Günter Reischs Ein Lord am Alexanderplatz, München im Frühwerk von Wim Wenders, die Passage von New York über Berlin nach Athen und Santorini in Rudolf Thomes Die Sonnengöttin, das wiedervereinigte Berlin in Tom Tykwers Lola rennt. Im Mittelpunkt des Interesses stehen dabei die poetologischen Verfahren, mit denen die Filme ihre Schauplätze ästhetisch erschließen. In der Verschränkung von Topologie und Filmästhetik entwirft das Buch Räume historischer Erfahrung, die der Filmgeschichtsschreibung neue Zugänge eröffnen.

PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General. --- Conception of space in film. --- filmic locations. --- history of German cinema.

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A Credible Utopia: Essays on Selected Films of Werner Schroeter offers unique and personal insights into Schroeter’s cinematic universe. Many of the films discussed in this book are those upon which Schroeter’s worldwide reputation rests: Der Bomberpilot, an absurdist comedy; The Death of Maria Malibran, a film about ecstatic redemption in death; Willow Springs, about the complex relationships between men and women; Day of the Idiots, a visually baroque, operatic and highly dramatic film about madness; The Kingdom of Naples, Schroeter’s visually stunning depiction of Italy in the post-war years; and Palermo or Wolfsburg, for which Schroeter won the Golden Bear, an epic film about love, violence, and cultural malaise. But Valente also addresses Schroeter's early experimental films that don't get as much attention, such as Aggression, Neurasia, and Argila, all of which are about the struggle between repression and desire, and Deux, a late work that Schroeter considered his masterpiece, a film about the double and the ways in which identity is formed by integrating the abject part of ourselves with the good. Valente concludes with an analysis of Nuit de Chien, Schroeter's final film, a powerful summation of a live devoted to art, music, literature, and film.When the Museum of Modern Art staged a retrospective of Schroeter's ouevre in 2012, there was hardly anything in English on his films and only one film available on DVD in the US, such that Schroeter's work as a director has remained largely invisible in the English-speaking world. A Credible Utopia repairs this lacuna in film history, and, in a detailed and intimate reading of Schroeter's queer ouevre, links all these films together through Schroeter's desire for a “credible utopia,” despite our shared awareness of disaster, torture, viciousness, and political corruption in the world.

Film theory & criticism --- Individual film directors, film-makers --- esthetics;film studies;German cinema;homosexuality;queer studies;utopia;Werner Schroeter

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In recent decades, special effects have become a major new area of research in cinema studies. For the most part, they have been examined as spectacles or practical tools. In contrast, Special Effects and German Silent Film, foregrounds their function as an expressive device and their pivotal role in cinema's emergence as a full-fledged art. Special effects not only shaped the look of iconic films like Nosferatu (1922) or Metropolis (1927), but they are central to a comprehensive understanding of German silent film culture writ large. This book examines special effects as the embodiment of a 'techno-romantic' paradigm that seeks to harness technology-the epitome of modern materialism-as a means for accessing a spiritual realm. Employed to visualize ideas and emotions in a medium-specific way, special effects thus paved the way for film art.

Silent films --- Cinematography --- History and criticism. --- Special effects --- History. --- special effects, German cinema, silent cinema, film style, technology.

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Die Berliner Schule gilt als die wichtigste Strömung im deutschen Kino seit den 1970er Jahren. Gleichzeitig kann sie als wesentlicher Teil der globalen New-Wave-Filme verstanden werden, die an den traditionellen Rändern des Weltkinos angesiedelt sind. In 15 Essays setzen die Beiträger*innen des Bandes die Berliner Schule mit Beispielen des globalen Kinos in Verbindung - vom Nahen Osten über Südostasien bis Nordamerika - und laden dazu ein, sie als zentralen Aspekt des Nachwende-Kinos in einem transnationalen Licht zu betrachten. Damit liefern sie zum ersten Mal eine systematische Untersuchung dieser Gattung und stellen sie als eine der wichtigsten Entwicklungen des gegenwärtigen Arthouse-Kinos heraus.

Film; Berliner Schule; Deutsches Kino; Arthouse-Kino; Nachwende-Kino; New Wave; Globales Kino; Gegenwartskino; Filmemacher; Filmtheorie; Filmkritik; Globalisierung; Medienwissenschaft; Berlin School; German Cinema; Post-reunification Cinema; Global Cinema; Contemporary Cinema; Movie Makers; Film Theory; Movie Critics; Globalization; Media Studies --- Berlin School. --- Contemporary Cinema. --- Film Theory. --- German Cinema. --- Global Cinema. --- Globalization. --- Media Studies. --- Movie Critics. --- Movie Makers. --- New Wave. --- Post-reunification Cinema.

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"The Altering Eye covers a "golden age" of international cinema from the end of WWII through to the New German Cinema of the 1970's. Combining historical, political, and textual analysis, Kolker develops a pattern of cinematic invention and experimentation from neorealism through the modernist interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Maria Fassbinder, focusing along the way on such major figures as Luis Buñuel, Joseph Losey, the Brazilian director Glauber Rocha, and the work of major Cuban filmmakers. Kolker's book has become a much quoted classic in the field of film studies providing essential reading for anybody interested in understanding the history of European and international cinema. This new and revised edition includes a substantive new preface by the author and an updated bibliography."--Publisher's website.

Motion picture plays --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy. --- movies --- cinema --- rainer maria fassbinder --- european film --- joseph losey --- jean-luc godard --- film --- film studies --- glauber rocha --- new german cinema --- Filmmaking