NBA: New Directions in German Cinema, edited by Paul Cooke and Chris Homewood

From: Paul Cooke <[email protected]>

Dear all,

some colleagues might be interested in the publication of this new  
volume by I.B. Tauris.

Best wishes

Paul


New Directions in German Cinema, edited by Paul Cooke and Chris Homewood

Germany’s national film industry has been undergoing a remarkable  
resurgence since the beginning of the new millennium. German language  
films such as The Lives of Others have been winning Oscars, and all  
the main international festivals, from Berlin to Cannes, have been  
showcasing these films. German language cinema is again attracting  
attention at home and abroad and New Directions in German Cinema  
explores its developments since 2000.

An international group of specialists on German film, society,  
culture, and politics together provide a wide-ranging study of this  
remarkable turn of fortunes. They examine just what German language  
film now has to offer, from the evolution of the so-called ‘heritage  
films’ which now dominate the country’s mainstream and which examine  
Germany’s problematic pasts – the Nazi, East German and terrorist  
legacies – to those which focus on the contemporary social reality of  
the Berlin Republic.

Contents

Introduction Beyond the Cinema of Consensus? New Directions in German  
Cinema since 2000 *
‘A Kind of Species Memory’: The Time of the Elephants in the Space of  
Alexander Kluge’s Cinematic Principle
Downfall (2004): Hitler in the New Millennium and the (Ab)Uses of  
History
‘Wonderfully Courageous’?: The Human Face of a Legend in Sophie Sophie  
Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Music After Mauthausen: Re-Presenting the Holocaust in Stefan  
Ruzowitzky’s The Counterfeiters (2007)Aiming to Please? Consensus and  
consciousness-raising in Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)  
Watching the Stasi: Authenticity, Ostalgie and History in Florian  
Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others (2006)
 From Baader to Prada: Memory and Myth in Uli Edel’s The Baader  
Meinhof Complex (2008)
The Absent Heimat: Hans-Christian Schmid’s Requiem (2006)
Play for Today: Situationist Protests and Uncanny Encounters in Hans  
Weingartner’s The Edukators (2004) German Autoren Dialogue with  
Hollywood? Refunctioning the Horror Genre in Christian Petzold’s Yella  
(2007)
‘A Sharpening of Our Regard’: Realism, Affect, and the Redistribution  
of the Sensible in Valeska Grisebach’s Longing (2006)
Too Late for Love? The Cinema of Andreas Dresen on Cloud 9 (2008)
‘Seeing Everything with Different Eyes’: The Diasporic Optic of Fatih  
Akin’s Head On (2004)
No Place Like Heimat: Mediaspaces and moving landscapes in Edgar  
Reitz’s Heimat 3 (2004)


Paul Cooke
Faculty of Arts Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation
Professor of German Cultural Studies
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
University of Leeds,
Leeds
LS29JT

tel: 0113 3433507 (direct line)
fax: 0113 3433505