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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...

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Έκδοση: Amsterdam University Press 2021
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048551958
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-470452021-03-06T01:50:56Z German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism Baer, Hester German film neoliberalism economic change feminism national cinema bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFK Feminism & feminist theory 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. 2021-03-05T10:52:50Z 2021-03-05T10:52:50Z 2021 book ONIX_20210305_9789048551958_5 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47045 eng Film Culture in Transition application/pdf n/a 9789048551958.pdf https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048551958 Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789048551958 10.5117/9789048551958 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 1425ffb1-27e9-4245-a16a-ad7b144253b1 Amsterdam University Press 320 [grantnumber unknown] University of Maryland UMD open access
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description 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.
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