The use and abuse of cinema : German legacies from the Weimar era to the present / Eric Rentschler.
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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Physical Description: | vi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: History lessons and courses in time
- Pt. 1. Critical venues
- How a social critic became a formative theorist
- Hunger for experience, spectatorship, and the seventies
- The passenger and the critical critic
- The limits of aesthetic resistance
- Springtime for UFA
- Pt. 2. Serials and cycles
- Mountains and modernity
- Too lovely to be true
- The management of shattered identity
- After the war, before the wall
- Pt. 3. From Oberhausen to Bitburg
- Remembering not to forget
- Many ways to fight a battle
- How American is it?
- The use and abuse of memory
- A cinema of citation
- The declaration of independents
- Pt. 4. Postwall prospects
- An archaeology of the Berlin school
- The surveillance camera's quarry
- Heritages and histories
- Life in the shadows
- Two trips to the Berlinale.