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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nick hodgin”
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  • Andreas Dresen

    Edited by Julian Preece, Nick Hodgin ...
    Andreas Dresen is a leading European filmmaker whose œuvre now spans three decades and includes some of the most acclaimed German films of recent times, such as Halbe Treppe (Grill Point, 2002), Sommer vorm Balkon (Summer in Berlin, 2005) and Halt auf freier Strecke (Stopped on Track, 2011). The essays collected in this volume by leading scholars from the USA, UK and Ireland place him in the ... Read more

    $77.09 USD

  • Scars and Wounds

    Film and Legacies of Trauma

    Edited by Nick Hodgin, Amit Thakkar ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines recent cinematic representations of the traumatic legacies of national and international events and processes. Whilst not ignoring European and Hollywood cinema, it includes studies of films about countries which have been less well-represented in cinematic trauma studies, including Australia, Rwanda, Chile and Iran. Each essay establishes national and international contexts ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Screening the East

    Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989

    by Nick Hodgin ...
    Series Book 11 - Film Europa
    Screening the East considers German filmmakers’ responses to unification. In particular, it traces the representation of the East German community in films made since 1989 and considers whether these narratives challenge or reinforce the notion of a separate East German identity. The book identifies and analyses a large number of films, from internationally successful box-office hits, to lesser ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Shell Shock Cinema

    Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War

    by Anton Kaes ...
    How war trauma haunted the films of Weimar GermanyShell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. In this exciting new book, Anton Kaes argues that masterworks such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The Nibelungen, and Metropolis, even though they do not ... Read more

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  • German National Cinema

    by Sabine Hake ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    German National Cinema is the first comprehensive history of German film from its origins to the present. In this new edition, Sabine Hake discusses film-making in economic, political, social, and cultural terms, and considers the contribution of Germany's most popular films to changing definitions of genre, authorship, and film form.The book traces the central role of cinema in the nation’s ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema

    Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy

    by Christian Rogowski, John F Fetzer, Joseph Garncarz, Nancy Nenno, Ofer Ashkenazi, Philipp Stiasny, Richard W. McCormick, Veronika Fuechtner, Anjeana K. Hans, Chris Wahl0, Cynthia Walk1, Elizabeth Otto2, Jaimey Fisher3, Professor Jill Suzanne Smith4, Joel Westerdale5 ...
    Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But in recent decades, such reductive assessments have been challenged by developments in film theory and archival research that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Companion to German Cinema

    Edited by Terri Ginsberg, Andrea Mensch ...
    Series Book 4 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to German CinemaA Companion to German Cinema regards the shifting terrain of German filmmaking and film studies against their larger social contexts with twenty-two newly commissioned essays by well-established and younger scholars in the field. While several of these focus on classic topics such as Weimar cinema, Fifties cinema, New German Cinema and its legacy, and Holocaust film, ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • Willing Seduction

    The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture

    by Barbara Kosta ...
    Series Book 8 - Film Europa
    Josef von Sternberg’s 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany’s first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood stardom and for initiating the mythic pairing of the Austrian-born American director von Sternberg with the star performer Dietrich ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Weimar Cinema and After

    Germany's Historical Imaginary

    by Thomas Elsaesser ...
    German cinema of the 1920s is still regarded as one of the 'golden ages' of world cinema. Films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dr Mabuse the Gambler, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Pandora's Box and The Blue Angel have long been canonised as classics, but they are also among the key films defining an image of Germany as a nation uneasy with itself. The work of directors like Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Use and Abuse of Cinema

    German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present

    by Eric Rentschler ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria

    Edited by Gabriele Mueller, James M. Skidmore ...
    Series series Film and Media Studies
    During the last decade, contemporary German and Austrian cinema has grappled with new social and economic realities. The “cinema of consensus,” a term coined to describe the popular and commercially oriented filmmaking of the 1990s, has given way to a more heterogeneous and critical cinema culture. Making the greatest artistic impact since the 1970s, contemporary cinema is responding to questions ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • The Politics of Humour

    Laughter, Inclusion and Exclusion in the Twentieth Century

    by Martina Kessel, Patrick Merziger ...
    Series series Governance Series
    The period between the First World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is often characterized as the age of extremes—while this era witnessed unprecedented violence and loss of human life, it also saw a surge in humorous entertainment in both democratic and authoritarian societies. The Politics of Humour examines how works such as satirical magazines and comedy films were used both to reaffirm ... Read more

    $48.29 USD