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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 159–178.
Published: 01 November 2014
... agency. © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 Shameful Exposures: Ordinary Germans
and the Nazi Past in Contemporary
German Documentary Film
Axel Bangert
In view of the genocide of the Jews, guilt and shame are frequently cited...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 53–74.
Published: 01 February 2010
..., the film's director, Tom Tykwer, clinically atomizes his own characters' phlegmatic tendencies and reveals a morose and immobilized German identity. Filmic allusions to Wim Wenders's films from the 1970s and Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) contextualize Tykwer's characters across...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 5–51.
Published: 01 August 2009
... photomontages, here he avoided the photographic basis of film because it lent itself all too easily to prowar propaganda. His work with George Grosz, by contrast, attempted to reinsert somatic terror into representations of the war and thereby to counter the visually sedative aspect of contemporary German war...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 53–78.
Published: 01 November 2019
... films combine a playful eclecticism with an acute sense of contemporary political issues like precarious working conditions, gentrification, and the commodification of art and culture. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 Max Linz Julian Radlmaier dffb comedy political cinema...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 133–160.
Published: 01 August 2022
...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...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 77–107.
Published: 01 February 2024
... 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...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 75–98.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Marco Abel The contemporary German filmmaker Oskar Roehler can be considered a “postromance” director whose films obsessively present so-called single-generation protagonists who often blame their inability to maintain successful relationships on their generational predecessors, the 68ers. When...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 171–191.
Published: 01 November 2013
... the filmic strategies developed at the height of New German Cinema and
especially the feminist New German filmmakers. These strategies are gener-
ally ignored and forgotten in contemporary film. In addition to Sander’s influ-
ence, immediately recognizable in the alcohol-fueled decline of the main char...
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Between Israel and Germany: Therapeutic Return to the Place of Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema
New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 179–197.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Tadmor and Guy Nativ, 2007), and The Debt (dir. Assaf Bernstein, 2007).
17. A detailed discussion of these films can be found in my paper “Images in Transformation:
Representations of Germany and Germans in Contemporary Israeli Fiction Cinema,” Working
Papers Series: The European Forum...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 1–9.
Published: 01 November 2019
... thought, literature, politics, and culture, film has played an integral role. 1 At crucial points in its history, the journal has taken stock of contemporary German cinema, first doing so in a special issue devoted to New German Cinema (Fall–Winter 1981–82). That issue probed the impact...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 133–148.
Published: 01 November 2023
...-Wall. US scholars now remain ever on the lookout for a new all-encompassing cubby hole for contemporary films, something similar to what New German Cinema (the only label in this periodization not based on a national political event) was for the 1970s, to do for German studies what New Hollywood did...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 207–233.
Published: 01 November 2019
... things, Graf asks, ever different? The prologue to Doomed Love commingles pyrotechnics, pique, and pathos in a litany of scorn and frustration. The sequence ends with a pathogenesis of what its directors consider to be the moribund contemporary German film scene. In its gritty visuals...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 171–195.
Published: 01 August 2019
.... At the same time, however, the emergence of reenactment in contemporary German theater and film coincides with a more widespread shift in the conception of the role of critique in literary and cultural theory. It is this latter aspect that I explore in this article. There is by now a widespread sense...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 79–101.
Published: 01 November 2019
... inhabit it and the ways they interact. contemporary German film Kreuzberg Berlinale Situationist International dérive Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 43. Agamben, “Difference and Repetition,” 319 . 44. Geene, interview by author. 45. See...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 113–134.
Published: 01 November 2014
... that sur-
pass public history and serve contemporary viewers as an object of emotional
identification” by framing “relations between German Jews and non-Jews as a
positive symbiosis.”12 Koepnick identifies in heritage films of the postunifica-
tion period a particular focus on the Jewish...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 59–71.
Published: 01 November 2020
... 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...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 9–38.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of the Jewish victim not only in Resnais’s film but also in contemporary German memory. IfNight
and Fog wishes to return the body’s trace, “Engführung” returns to the reader the cry of the other.
This is a particularly Jewish cry absent from the film, and, according to Celan, it is a cry that Ger-
many...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 33–44.
Published: 01 November 2020
... essay “The Contemporary West German Film as a Social Symptom.” 5. Färber, “Das unentdeckte Kino,” 18–19 . 6. Steinitz, Geschichte der deutschen Filmkritik , 219 . 7. For scathing critiques of new subjectivist discourse, see Witte’s and Koch’s contributions to Grob and Prümm...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 9–34.
Published: 01 November 2014
...
West German society, Thalheim’s film confronts an era in which students
commonly complain of being inundated with lessons about the Holocaust—
of a kind of pedagogical oversaturation. In insinuating contemporary peda-
gogy in this resistance, Thalheim brings Adorno’s questions up-to-date, sug...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 1–5.
Published: 01 November 2020
...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...
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