Main entry:

Baer, Hester, author.

Title & Author:

German cinema in the age of neoliberalism / Hester Baer.

Publication:

[Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
©2021

Description:

1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations

Series:

Film culture in transition

Restrictions:

Open access.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Making Neoliberalism Visible -- 1. German Cinema and the Neoliberal Turn : The End of the National-Cultural Film Project -- 2. Producing German Cinema for the World : Global Blockbusters from Location Germany -- 3. From Everyday Life to the Crisis Ordinary : Films of Ordinary Life and the Resonance of DEFA -- 4. Future Feminism : Political Filmmaking and the Resonance of the West German Feminist Film Movement -- 5. The Failing Family : Changing Constellations of Gender, Intimacy, and Genre -- 6. Refiguring National Cinema in Films about Labour, Money, and Debt -- Conclusion: German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism.

Summary:

"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"--Publisher's description.

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ISBN:

9789048551958 (electronic bk.)
9048551951 (electronic bk.)
9463727337
9789463727334

Subject:

Motion pictures Germany 20th century History and criticism.
Motion pictures Germany 21st century History and criticism.
Neoliberalism in motion pictures.
Feminist film criticism Germany.
Motion pictures Germany History and criticism.
Cinéma Allemagne Histoire et critique.
Néo-libéralisme au cinéma.
Cinéma Allemagne 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Cinéma Allemagne 21e siècle Histoire et critique.
Critique cinématographique féministe Allemagne.
Films, cinema.
Feminism and feminist theory.
HISTORY Europe Germany.
Feminist film criticism
Motion pictures
Film history, theory or criticism.
Germany
German film, neoliberalism, economic change, feminism, national cinema.

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Discursive works.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Film criticism
Critiques cinématographiques.

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Film culture in transition.