Search Results for German film criticism

...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...

... the function and itinerary of “serious” criticism. This lacuna includes the position and role of Filmkritik . The leading German cinephile magazine was founded to create a “legitimate” postwar German film criticism against prevailing “impressionism,” but within a decade it had transformed from an organ...

.... 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...

... spaces to win back film criticism as a counterbalance to market-driven film policies? Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020 activist film criticism writing on film in Germany crisis on traditional film criticism future prospects of film criticism Film criticism finds itself...

...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...

...Eric Kligerman Despite critics' attempts to read a work of mourning unfolding in films about the Red Army Faction (RAF) with respect to two traumatic histories (the National Socialist [NS] past and the German Autumn), this article examines how such films as Germany in Autumn, The Patriot...

... relations. With a deadpan, whimsical tone, Farocki argues that all this is, or should be, film criticism—in German, Filmkritik . Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020 New German Cinema political film education alternative education Harun Farocki film criticism Although...

... and a critical dialogue with commentaries on both the mountain film and discussions of Maddin’s oeuvre. Putting to use transnational perspectives, this analysis of a Canadian director’s appropriation of a hallmark German genre problematizes previous constructions of national identity and national cinema as well...

... on the problematic represen- tation of the Holocaust in postwar German film but also can be seen as a self- critical commentary on Reitz’s own deficiencies in Heimat I. Against this back- ground, it is certainly too simplistic to regard the demise of the New German Cinema in Die zweite Heimat solely as a result...

...Randall Halle Unleashed by the markets that led to the Great Recession, processes of gentrification rapidly transform major German cities. The experiences of urban transformation have found critical expression in documentary and feature film. This article reviews the cultural history...

... 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...

..., as many newspaper critics noted, is the latest in a series of two-part German television feature films that portray Germans as victims. While Roland Suso Richter’s Dresden (2006) depicted victimhood at the hands of Allied bombers, and Die Flucht (Flight, 2007) the victimhood...

... generation of German filmmakers. Andersch’s film theory relies on three main ideas: the insistence on the tradition of critical realism following the Italian model; the definition of the feature film as a “visual form of literature”; and consequently, the insistence on the primacy of the screenplay...

... of an internationally renowned director. Although Lang’s final films were moderate financial successes, West German critics largely dismissed them, as they did the work of re-émigré filmmakers in general. 4 The films found a more welcome audience, however, among French critics attuned to Lang’s larger career...

... and for epistemological abundance to endure. It asks what this might look like in practice, offering the reader three critical excursions through a single film, Angelina Maccarone’s Unveiled (2005). [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by New German Critique, Inc. 2023 Angelina Maccarone queer German cinema...

... image of modern Berlin promoted in the daily press, in films, and in advertising during the Weimar Republic. This was done to display the German capital as a “human” city in which the urban dweller could feel at home. Although the late 1920s are mostly considered a period of medium optimism, Stone's...

... be interpreted as an ambivalent statement about the power of the critic. Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020 short form criticism New Austrian Cinema Kakania Meteor Haneke How might we think about film criticism? Somewhat irreverently, we could say that reviews are like...

... among films from the era in its proximity to the events of fall 1989, its approach to showing their impact on East Germans not at their center, and its nuanced reflections on the end of the GDR. 42 The East German film critic Knut Elstermann, who was twenty-nine when the wall came down, considered...

... Is Haunting Europe (2012) announces a “Suprematist comedy.” The film, which was awarded the German Film Critics’ Prize in 2013, starts with the prologue from Flaubert’s Sentimental Education , yet it takes place in Berlin in 2011, a city populated by the ghosts of the Russian avant-garde. A Georgian named...