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Auteur(s) : Rentschler, Eric (1949-....)
Titre(s) : The use and abuse of cinema [Texte imprimé] : German legacies from the Weimar era to the present / Eric Rentschler
Publication : New York : Columbia University Press, ©2015
Description matérielle : vi, 451 pages : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : Film and culture
Lien à la collection : Film and culture
Comprend : Introduction: History lessons and courses in time ; Pt. 1. Critical venues. How
a social critic became a formative theorist ; Hunger for experience, spectatorship,
and the seventies ; The passenger and the critical critic ; The limits of aesthetic
resistance ; Springtime for UFA ; Pt. 2. Serials and cycles. Mountains and modernity
; Too lovely to be true ; The management of shattered identity ; After the war,
before the wall ; Pt. 3. From Oberhausen to Bitburg. Remembering not to forget ;
Many ways to fight a battle ; How American is it? ; The use and abuse of memory
; A cinema of citation ; The declaration of independents ; Pt. 4. Postwall prospects.
An archaeology of the Berlin school ; The surveillance camera's quarry ; Heritages
and histories ; Life in the shadows ; Two trips to the Berlinale.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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 which the film medium has
figured in Germany, both as a site of creative and critical enterprise and as a locus
of destructive and regressive endeavor. Each of the chapters provides a stirring minidrama;
the cast includes prominent critics such as Siegfried Kracauer and Rudolf Arnheim;
postwar directors like Wolfgang Staudte, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, and
Alexander Kluge; representatives of the so-called Berlin School; and exponents of
mountain epics, early sound musicals, rubble films, and recent heritage features.
A film history that is both original and unconventional, Rentschler's colorful tapestry
weaves together figures, motifs, and stories in exciting, unexpected, and even novelistic
ways. --Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Cinéma -- Allemagne
Films parlants
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.430 9430904 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Europe centrale Allemagne - 1900-1999
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780231073622. - ISBN 0231073623. - ISBN 9780231073639. - ISBN 0231073631. -
ISBN 9780231539395 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb443087085
Notice n° :
FRBNF44308708
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