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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 85–110.
Published: 01 November 2013
... 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...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 33–44.
Published: 01 November 2020
...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...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 21–31.
Published: 01 November 2020
...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...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 1–5.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... 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...
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The Ends of (German) Film Criticism: On Recurring Doomsday Scenarios and the New Algorithmic Culture
New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 45–57.
Published: 01 November 2020
...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...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 59–71.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Claudia Lenssen Abstract As traditional media in Germany have lost their relevance in the digital age, so has the perpetually embattled authority of film criticism diminished. The article addresses current debates about the state of criticism while critics are confronting the collapse of the media...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 73–91.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in the translation as well. 3. For translations of other reviews and short writings on film, see Kracauer, “Calico World,” “The Little Shop Girls Go to the Movies,” “Film 1928,” and “Cult of Distraction,” in The Mass Ornament ; Kracauer, “Task of the Film Critic” ; and the larger subset of reviews...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 147–175.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Ricardo Samaniego de la Fuente Abstract Rejecting a reading of Theodor W. Adorno as a critic of the culture industry who could not conceive of film’s critical potential, many commentators have argued that for Adorno, film can become autonomous and thus a medium for social critique. This article...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 171–191.
Published: 01 November 2013
...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...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 159–191.
Published: 01 November 2024
... 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. [email protected]...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 93–98.
Published: 01 November 2020
... 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...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 7–20.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., and expressive movement and gesture shape human subjectivities within a newly mediatized social realm. The article explores Balázs’s consequent plea for a film politics of popular embodiment and asks what a survey of Balázs’s writings as both critic and theorist tell us about the political valences of his film...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 77–107.
Published: 01 February 2024
... attempt to associate film and literature and thereby develop an alternative concept to the European cinéma des auteurs . To this end, the essay discusses not only Andersch’s critical writings but also a number of documents from his estate. Andersch’s film theory is evaluated in light of the contemporary...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 133–160.
Published: 01 August 2022
... 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...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 73–83.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and critical knowledge as the emotional form of ambivalence, insofar as his often-cited harsh judgments on culture industry are countered by a more complex argument about the inherent ambivalence over the aims and issues of (mass) (art). © 2009 by New German Critique, Inc. 2009 Uneasy Pleasing: Film...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 161–186.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., the article reconstructs the film’s interconnections with critical discourses on the afterlife of fascist terror, authoritarianism, and irrationality in postwar urban space, media, and astrology. It demonstrates further the importance of rereading Lang, and cinema in general, in close relation to other media...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 83–103.
Published: 01 November 2017
...-American scholarship, particularly in the history of film studies. The article situates the trope of anonymity at the heart of Kracauer's oeuvre, where it helps define a nonsovereign subject in response to modernity. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Siegfried Kracauer Critical Theory...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 67–82.
Published: 01 August 2014
... criteria, largely oriented around the idea of play (with the medium, with other films, with history, etc.), from actual instances of translation. Though Hansen herself does not make this act of criticism explicit, recognizing its presence in fact grounds vernacular modernism more emphatically, and more...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 9–38.
Published: 01 February 2011
...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...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 99–140.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in the early twentieth century. Siegfried Kracauer, the German Jewish architect, journalist, film critic, and novelist, made an important yet little-known contribution to this debate. Beginning in 1921, Kracauer worked first as a freelance writer, and from 1922 as an editor for the Frankfurter Zeitung...
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