
Performing the Modern German
Performance and Identity in Contemporary German Cinema
Matthias Uecker(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 4. June 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
322 pages
978-3-0343-0972-1 (ISBN)
Description
Since the late 1990s, German cinema has gone through a period of astonishing productivity and success that has made it the focus of scholarly analysis once more. What can contemporary German cinema tell us about current German society and its problems? What are the distinguishing features of filmmaking in Germany today?
This book analyses the representation of individual and collective behaviour in post-unification German cinema. It looks at performances of gender, ethnicity and nationality in a wide range of contemporary German films. Using Performance Theory as a framework, the book discusses how modern German identities are presented as conformist, liberating or subversive responses to external challenges.
Theoretical considerations regarding the efficacy of performance and the dialectical relationship between transgression, resistance and normalization form the background for an analysis that investigates contemporary German films in terms of their function within the restructuring of post-unification German society.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Target group
Germanisten; Filmwissenschaftler
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
465 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0343-0972-1 (9783034309721)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0474-9
Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
07/2013
250th Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€108.69
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Person
Matthias Uecker is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham. He has published books on documentary writing in the Weimar Republic (Wirklichkeit und Literatur, 2007), Alexander Kluges television productions (Anti-Fernsehen?, 2000) and cultural politics in the Ruhr area during the Weimar Republic (Zwischen Industrieprovinz und Großstadthoffnung, 1994), as well as numerous articles on German literature and cinema.
Content
Contents: The Power of Performance - When Is a Man a Man? Performances of Conflicted Masculinity - Jewish Drag: Ritual and Identity in the Performance of Jewishness - East is East? Performative Constructions of East German Lives - Between Otherness and Hyphenation: Turkish-German Performances - Against Normality? Performing Rebellion and Resistance - Perform or Else! Conformism, Achievement and Subversion in the Performance Society - The Pursuit of Normality: Performed Identities in Current German Cinema.