Search Results for German film

...Karolina Watroba Guy Maddin is a contemporary Canadian director who has been often lauded for the national distinctiveness of his work. Maddin’s Careful (1992), however, poses as an unrestored German Bergfilm (mountain film) from the early 1930s. This article offers a close reading of Careful...

...Jamie H. Trnka New German Critique, Inc. 2007 “The Struggle Is Over, the Wounds Are Open”: Cinematic Tropes, History, and the RAF in Recent German Film Jamie H. Trnka Recent German films have taken up questions of terrorist violence...

...Eric Rentschler Abstract The often bemoaned crisis of West German cinema in the 1980s coincided with a dramatic changing of the nation’s film critical guard. The symptomatic impetus that had figured so strongly during the postwar era gave way to the so-called new subjectivism of young critics like...

...Mattias Frey Abstract A prominent strain of discourse sees digital-age German film criticism in a terminal trajectory of commercialization and dumbing down. This article demonstrates that this rhetoric is not unique: neither to German-speaking countries nor to the digital age. Complaints about...

...Mattias Frey The history of the Young German Film and the European New Waves is widely rehearsed as the story of rebels who sought new visual languages in the face of moribund film culture. Perhaps less consistently told is the contemporaneous debate in Western European film periodicals about...

...Ursula von Keitz New German Critique, Inc. 2007 Translated from the German by Rachel Leah MagShamhráin Between Dramatization and Epicization: The Portrayal of Nazi Crimes in Exemplary German Films from the Late 1940s to the 1970s Ursula...

...Gerd Gemünden; Noah Isenberg Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. For more than a century—dating as far back as 1907, when the first German-language film...

...Katharina Loew Focusing on the German discussion about film between 1907 and 1914, this article explores efforts to fathom film technology's ability to provide access to a spiritual dimension. Some commentators argued that film technology facilitated novel forms of creative expressivity...

...Axel Bangert This article examines how documentary film in reunified Germany has engaged with the Nazi past of “ordinary Germans” and their descendants. It analyzes films produced since 1990 that portray personal views of the period, including those of World War II veterans, Hitler's secretary...

... situation. Their diagnosis is grim, for in their assessment the state of the nation’s film culture is altogether dire and depleted. Why, they wonder, are German films so unpopular? Why does Germany produce so few compelling genre films, and why do German films in general seem so averse to representing...

... for a mass audience. More recently, a crop of new films does something radically different. This essay tracks Jewish revenge plots in contemporary German film. Films such as Ende der Schonzeit ( Closed Season , dir. Franziska Schlotterer, 2012), Winterjagd ( Winter Hunt , dir. Astrid Schult, 2017), Masel Tov...

... affectively sensed and gave expression to at the level of both film criticism and filmmaking. Attending more closely to this film, largely ignored by German film historiography, might be useful for addressing the question of what left politics—and filmmaking—was, and what it is today. References Abel...

... to the crisis of West German film around 1960. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024 film history film theory screenplay transmediality The author Alfred Andersch is still known today for his international bestsellers Sansibar oder Der letzte...

...Mary Hennessy This article examines the role of the female film editor in the production of German silent cinema, turning to the depiction of editing in a little-known short comedy from 1926, Wenn die Filmkleberin gebummelt hat ( When the Film Editor Dawdled , dir. O. F. Mauer), also known...

... that takes stock of the state of German cities, German media, and German society from the viewpoint of their “end.” In reading these three variations of his essay films as “architectures of images,” the article presents Graf and his collaborators as “collectors” and “combiners,” who not only (re)construct...

...Volker Pantenburg Abstract This article examines the work of Max Linz and Julian Radlmaier, two German directors born in the mid-1980s. It traces their academic and practical training in film studies and film directing and highlights their aesthetic and political approach as an attempt to counter...

...Erin McGlothlin This article focuses on the 2007 short film Spielzeugland ( Toyland ) and its engagement with the cinematic trope of the “wrong” victim and with German-Jewish history. First, the article analyzes how the film imagines the so-called German-Jewish symbiosis at the moment of its most...

...Brook Henkel Fritz Lang’s film The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) stands out among West German cinema of the Adenauer years for its attention to urban space and the afterlife of Nazism in the postwar era. This article rereads the film as an incisive representation of the new mobilities...

... title refers. A Film Unfinished presents a paradigm of redoubled spectatorship: it is an Israeli film about the production of a German propaganda film, and it is also a film about the experience of encountering scenes from one's own past in such a film. The film's witnesses are positioned before...

...Frederic Ponten Abstract This article details the brief collaboration between Siegfried Kracauer and Gregory Bateson in the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art during World War II as an intriguing episode in intellectual history, touching on film and media studies, anthropology, and German...