Use and Abuse of Cinema

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-07363-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar and postwall epochs and into the new millennium. These journeys afford rich panoramas and nuanced close-ups from a nation's production of fantasies and spectacles, traversing the different ways in which the film medium has figured in Germany, both as a site of creative and critical enterprise and as a locus of destructive and regressive endeavor. Each of the chapters provides a stirring minidrama; the cast includes prominent critics such as Siegfried Kracauer and Rudolf Arnheim; postwar directors like Wolfgang Staudte, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, and Alexander Kluge; representatives of the so-called Berlin School; and exponents of mountain epics, early sound musicals, rubble films, and recent heritage features. A film history that is both original and unconventional, Rentschler's colorful tapestry weaves together figures, motifs, and stories in exciting, unexpected, and even novelistic ways.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rentschler, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: History Lessons and Courses in TimePart I. Critical Venues1. How a Social Critic Became a Formative Theorist2. Hunger for Experience, Spectatorship, and the Seventies3. The Passenger and the Critical Critic4. The Limits of Aesthetic Resistance5. Springtime for UfaPart II. Serials and Cycles6. Mountains and Modernity7. Too Lovely to Be True8. The Management of Shattered Identity9. After the War, Before the WallPart III. From Oberhausen to Bitburg10. Remembering Not to Forget11. Many Ways to Fight a Battle12. How American Is It?13. The Use and Abuse of Memory14. A Cinema of Citation15. The Declaration of IndependentsPart IV. Postwall Projects16. An Archaeology of the Berlin School17. The Surveillance Camera's Quarry18. Heritages and Histories19. Life in the Shadows20. Two Trips to the BerlinaleAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Rentschler is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the chair of the Film and Visual Studies Program at Harvard University.