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Germany's national film industry has been undergoing a remarkable resurgence since the beginning of the new millennium. German language films have been receiving Oscar nominations, the likes of "Downfall" and "The Lives of Others" have been winning Oscars, and all the main international festivals, from Berlin to Cannes, have been showcasing these films. German language cinema is again attracting attention at home and abroad and "New Directions in German Cinema" explores its developments since 2000. An international group of specialists on German film, society, culture, and politics together provide a wide-ranging study of this remarkable turn of fortunes. They examine just what German language film now has to offer, from the evolution of the so-called 'heritage films' which now dominate the country's mainstream and which examine Germany's problematic pasts - the Nazi, East German and terrorist legacies - to those which focus on the contemporary social reality of the Berlin Republic.
Contents
Introduction
Beyond the Cinema of Consensus? New Directions in German Cinema since 2000
Paul Cooke and Chris Homewood
Chapter One
'A Kind of Species Memory': The Time of the Elephants in the Space of Alexander Kluge's Cinematic Principle
John E. Davids
Chapter Two
Downfall (2004): Hitler in the New Millennium and the (Ab)Uses of History
Christine Haase
Chapter Three
'Wonderfully Courageous'?: The Human Face of a Legend in Sophie Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Owen Evans
Chapter Four
Music After Mauthausen: Re-Presenting the Holocaust in Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters (2007)
Brad Prager
Chapter Five
Aiming to Please? Consensus and consciousness-raising in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
Nick Hodgin
Chapter Six
Watching the Stasi: Authenticity, Ostalgie and History in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others (2006)
Paul Cooke
Chapter Seven
From Baader to Prada: Memory and Myth in Uli Edel's The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Chris Homewood
Chapter Eight
The Absent Heimat: Hans-Christian Schmid's Requiem (2006)
David Clarke
Chapter Nine
Play for Today: Situationist Protests and Uncanny Encounters in Hans Weingartner's The Edukators (2004)
Rachel Palfreyman
Chapter Ten
German Autoren Dialogue with Hollywood? Refunctioning the Horror Genre in Christian Petzold's Yella (2007)
Jaimey Fisher
Chapter Eleven
'A Sharpening of Our Regard': Realism, Affect, and the Redistribution of the Sensible in Valeska Grisebach's Longing (2006)
Marco Abel
Chapter Twelve
Too Late for Love? The Cinema of Andreas Dresen on Cloud 9 (2008)
Laura G. McGee
Chapter Thirteen
'Seeing Everything with Different Eyes': The Diasporic Optic of Fatih Akin's Head On (2004)
Daniela Berghahn
Chapter Fourteen
No Place Like Heimat: Mediaspaces and moving landscapes in Edgar Reitz's Heimat 3 (2004)
Alasdair King
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