Celluloid Revolt
German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968
1st Edition
Published on 22. April 2019
338 pages
978-1-78744-483-6 (ISBN)
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Provides new insights into German-language cinema around 1968 and its relationship to the period's epoch-making cultural and political happenings.
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Preuss Evelyn:
Evelyn Preuss is finishing her dissertation on East German cinema at Yale University. In addition, she is pursuing a project on neoliberalism and globalization(s) that examines the political effects of globalized media and culture and asks to what extent art can provide alternative, inclusive
platforms for building political and social consensus. Currently, she is coediting a volume, Through the Wall(s), examining the GDR's transnationalism in relation to informal networking and Eigensinn. She has published on East German Cinema, the intersection of media, architecture and politics, as well as on the disparity between Eastern and Western perspectives in a number of journals and anthologies.Haegele Lisa:
Lisa Haegele is assistant professor of German at Texas State UniversitySimpson Patricia Anne:
PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.Layne Priscilla:
PRISCILLA LAYNE is Professor of German, with an adjunct appointment in African, African American and Diaspora Studies, at the University of North Carolina.
Evelyn Preuss is finishing her dissertation on East German cinema at Yale University. In addition, she is pursuing a project on neoliberalism and globalization(s) that examines the political effects of globalized media and culture and asks to what extent art can provide alternative, inclusive
platforms for building political and social consensus. Currently, she is coediting a volume, Through the Wall(s), examining the GDR's transnationalism in relation to informal networking and Eigensinn. She has published on East German Cinema, the intersection of media, architecture and politics, as well as on the disparity between Eastern and Western perspectives in a number of journals and anthologies.Haegele Lisa:
Lisa Haegele is assistant professor of German at Texas State UniversitySimpson Patricia Anne:
PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.Layne Priscilla:
PRISCILLA LAYNE is Professor of German, with an adjunct appointment in African, African American and Diaspora Studies, at the University of North Carolina.
Content
Introduction: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968 - Christina Gerhardt and Marco Abel
PART I. ESSAYS
Peter Zadek's Film Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame (1969): Discussing "1968" by Means of "1968 Thinking" - Michael Dobstadt
"Break the Power of the Manipulators": Film and the West German 1968 - Timothy Scott Brown
Ideological Rupture in the dffb: An Analysis of Hans-Rüdiger Minow's Berlin, 2. Juni - Priscilla Layne
Helke Sander's dffb Films and West Germany's Feminist Movement - Christina Gerhardt
Film Feminisms in West German Cinema: A Public Sphere for Feminist Politics - Madeleine Bernstorff
A Laboratory for Political Film: The Formative Years of the German Film and Television Academy and Participatory Filmmaking from Workerism to Feminism - Fabian Tietke
West Germany's "Workers' Films": A Cinema in the Service of Television? - Thomas Elsaesser
Guns, Girls, and Gynecologists: West German Exploitation Cinema and the St. Pauli Film Wave in the Late 1960s - Lisa Haegele
Mediation, Expansion, Event: Reframing the Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative - Andrew Stefan Weiner
Prague Displaced: Political Tourism in the East German Blockbuster Heißer Sommer - Ian Fleishman
Animating the Socialist Personality: DEFA Fairy Tale Trickfilme in the Shadow of 1968 - Sean Eedy
Allegories of Resistance: The Legacy of 1968 in GDR Visual Cultures - Patricia Anne Simpson
"You Say You Want a Revolution": East German Film at the Crossroads between the Cinemas - Evelyn Preuss
Cruel Optimism, Post-68 Nostalgia and the Limits of Political Activism in Helma Sanders-Brahms's Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand (1975) - Ervin Malakaj
Revolting Formats: Hellmuth Costard's Der kleine Godard An das Kuratorium: Junger Deutscher Film - Kalani Michell
PART II. IN CONVERSATION: INTERVIEWS WITH FILMMAKERS
An Interview with Harun Farocki: "Holger Thought Aesthetics and Politics Together" - Tilman Baumgärtel
An Interview with Birgit Hein: "Art communicates knowledge that cannot be expressed in any other information system" - Randall Halle
An Interview with Klaus Lemke: "Being Smart Does Not Make Good Films" - Marco Abel
Notes on Contributors
PART I. ESSAYS
Peter Zadek's Film Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame (1969): Discussing "1968" by Means of "1968 Thinking" - Michael Dobstadt
"Break the Power of the Manipulators": Film and the West German 1968 - Timothy Scott Brown
Ideological Rupture in the dffb: An Analysis of Hans-Rüdiger Minow's Berlin, 2. Juni - Priscilla Layne
Helke Sander's dffb Films and West Germany's Feminist Movement - Christina Gerhardt
Film Feminisms in West German Cinema: A Public Sphere for Feminist Politics - Madeleine Bernstorff
A Laboratory for Political Film: The Formative Years of the German Film and Television Academy and Participatory Filmmaking from Workerism to Feminism - Fabian Tietke
West Germany's "Workers' Films": A Cinema in the Service of Television? - Thomas Elsaesser
Guns, Girls, and Gynecologists: West German Exploitation Cinema and the St. Pauli Film Wave in the Late 1960s - Lisa Haegele
Mediation, Expansion, Event: Reframing the Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative - Andrew Stefan Weiner
Prague Displaced: Political Tourism in the East German Blockbuster Heißer Sommer - Ian Fleishman
Animating the Socialist Personality: DEFA Fairy Tale Trickfilme in the Shadow of 1968 - Sean Eedy
Allegories of Resistance: The Legacy of 1968 in GDR Visual Cultures - Patricia Anne Simpson
"You Say You Want a Revolution": East German Film at the Crossroads between the Cinemas - Evelyn Preuss
Cruel Optimism, Post-68 Nostalgia and the Limits of Political Activism in Helma Sanders-Brahms's Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand (1975) - Ervin Malakaj
Revolting Formats: Hellmuth Costard's Der kleine Godard An das Kuratorium: Junger Deutscher Film - Kalani Michell
PART II. IN CONVERSATION: INTERVIEWS WITH FILMMAKERS
An Interview with Harun Farocki: "Holger Thought Aesthetics and Politics Together" - Tilman Baumgärtel
An Interview with Birgit Hein: "Art communicates knowledge that cannot be expressed in any other information system" - Randall Halle
An Interview with Klaus Lemke: "Being Smart Does Not Make Good Films" - Marco Abel
Notes on Contributors
