...Fatima Naqvi Abstract Film criticism helped constitute what is now called New Austrian Cinema. This article looks at “short form” criticism in edited volumes and emerging journals that worked to establish this cinema’s coherence and prestige. The virtuous cycle inaugurated in the 1990s—when critics...

...Brad Prager Abstract The Austrian director Ulrich Seidl often films interview subjects as though they were posing for portrait photographs, and Seidl maintains that one of his major influences is the photographer Diane Arbus. This article examines how this high level of control over a film’s frames...

...Fatima Naqvi Abstract The Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s films consistently thematize linear perspective as a mode of thought. His documentaries use one-point perspective to draw attention to a scientific habitus, with its studied neutrality and foregrounded objectivity. His “partitive...

.... Moreover, Filmkritik has persistently crossed the Atlantic due not only to the migration of prominent critics and filmmakers themselves but to the receptive audiences and readerships on both sides. Even today, a good century since the first pieces of film criticism appeared in German and Austrian...

...Norbert Otto Eke One of the most complicated questions in film and theater relating to the Shoah is how to render the events visible. Through an analysis of Michael Glawogger's Kill Daddy Goodnight , a film based on the eponymous novel by the Austrian writer Josef Haslinger, this article outlines...

... at major German and Austrian documentarians. Olivia Landry’s study of Philip Scheffner’s Halfmoon Files (2007) brings to our attention the capacity of nonfiction to revise history by returning to an archive and juxtaposing the images and sounds that one finds there. The film centers on the search...

...: Der parteipolitische Umgang mit dem Nationalsozialismus in Österreich . Frankfurt am Main : Campus , 2013 . Lorenz Dagmar . “ Austrians and Austria in Ruth Beckermann’s ‘Jenseits des Krieges,’ the Film and the Book .” Modern Austrian Literature 32 , no. 4 ( 1999 ): 323 – 33...

... Vienna.11 An Austrian production by Aichholzer Filmproduktion, which had its premiere at the Vienna Film Festival in 1996, the film shows controversies about the reality of World War II in German public discourse, and it was there- fore repeatedly screened as part of the supporting program...

... Film ( Doomed Love: A Journey through German Genre Films , 2016); and Offene Wunde deutscher Film ( Open Wounds: A Journey through German Genre Films , 2017). 30. Also important in this temporal context are the Austrian journals Blimp , Filmlogbuch , and especially Meteor as well...

..., a Dancer, Please! From the Life of an Eintänzer”) by an unknown twenty-one-year-old Austrian émigré, Billie Wilder, who had arrived in Berlin in June 1926.15 The essays are full of humor, irony, witty dialogues, 12. For more details on the image of the tennis player in the Weimar Republic, see...

.... Another path toward reconsidering notions of Heimat is via literary rep- resentations. Some of the most consistent and far-reaching probings of tradi- tional notions of Heimat since World War II have come from contemporary Austrian writers who challenge remnants of fascist and nationalist thinking...

... Image , Gdinetmao , Nachblende , and, of course, the inimitable Sigi-Götz Entertainment . 40. The Austrian film director Ernst Hofbauer gained questionable renown during the 1970s for his contributions to the soft-sex Schulmädchen-Report series. 41. The phrase is Thomas Groh’s. See...

.... 1 2  Introduction That some would be reluctant to confront the past is hardly new. In 1957 Theodor W. Adorno referred to Germany as the house of the hangman, where one avoids mentioning the noose.1 The survivor and scholar Ruth Klüger like- wise refers to her Austrian birthplace...

... western.” See Gemünden, “Making of Now,” 303, 310 . On Surya, see Lee, “Film Review.” 6. Recent German and Austrian popular films and TV series have also revamped the genre. These offerings include the German Austrian spaghetti western Das finstere Tal ( The Dark Valley , 2013) and the B movie...

.... There are throughlines between numbers 1 and 146, for sure: a strong demonstration of the capacities of literary criticism is evident, as in Barbara N. Nagel’s uncompromising essay on child abuse in the oeuvre of the Austrian modernist Robert Walser. Absent in the 2022 issue are critiques organized around labor...

... famous actors, among them Anthony Hopkins, Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas, and Richard Dreyfuss. The German terrorist Böse is played by the Austrian-born actor Helmut Berger. 62 The second version, also made for TV, this time by NBC, presents the events as an action film. Starring...

... within a newly mediatized social realm. I address in this context questions of the location (historical and political) of Balázs’s film writing. Threaded through his interwar oeuvre are numerous contributions to Marxist, left-liberal, and trade press outlets including the Austrian and German dailies Der...

... Untergang: Materialien für den Unterricht (Munich: Clever! Verlag, 2004). The electronic version is available on the fi lm’s offi cial Web site, www.untergang.fi lm.de/ index2.html (accessed July 19, 2007). 21. While this was of course a German-language production, Pabst’s Austrianness was stressed...

...; and McGlothlin, Second-Generation Holo- caust Literature, 139, 134. 26. Fuchs, Phantoms of War, 46. 144  Beyond Lateness? occurred before their authors were born.27 Though Rabinovici and Beyer—a Jewish Austrian born in Tel Aviv in 1961 and a German non-Jew born in West Berlin in 1965—come from...

... of the Cold War. Wilder, an Austrian American Jewish German filmmaker, knew a whole lot about romantic relationships, from the young people in Berlin in People on Sunday (1930) to a home-alone middle-aged married man dealing with the cycles and pitfalls of long-term relationship thinking (is that all...