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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 91–114.
Published: 01 November 2015
... analysis of
the horror mode as part of an ongoing reevaluation of genre in German cin-
ema, in line with both the growing interest in popular cinema and greater
sensitivity to genre in German film studies, something that has hitherto been
largely neglected, at least in comparison to Anglo-American...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 207–233.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Eric Rentschler Abstract The film essays Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film (2016) and Offene Wunde deutscher Film (2017), coscripted and codirected by Dominik Graf and Johannes F. Sievert, survey the postwar history of genre cinema in the Federal Republic of Germany and take stock of the present...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 171–191.
Published: 01 November 2013
... films, however, they offer an alternative social imaginary for life in Hamburg and Berlin. Akin relies on hybrid genre conventions to produce a comedic new Heimatfilm , while Turanskyj deploys an unemployed architect as skeptical flaneuse for a more tragic investigation. Both films critically represent...
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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 (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 1–40.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Michael Cowan The Querschnittfilm (cross-section film) has long been recognized as a documentary genre appropriate to mass society that uses montage, not the narrative development of individual characters, to compare various people and phenomena. But the term and concept of Querschnitt had both...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 11–34.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and their enduring contemporary relevance. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 European cinema film genre western Berlin School Taking stock of contemporary Hollywood genre films, a commentator in the Hollywood Reporter concludes that the western has remained inordinately...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 25–56.
Published: 01 February 2020
... Because of this relational logic, Fredric Jameson has described History and Obstinacy quite fittingly as “something of a theoretical film.” 22 He points to the book’s impressive collection of material from different disciplines, genres, and media: it includes notes on Marx’s “mode of production...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 171–188.
Published: 01 August 2014
... flourished under the convergence of various networks: in
the commercial venues, films from Shanghai and Hong Kong, including pre-
war productions, continued to flow in; a large number of foreign films, from
the United States, Soviet Union, Britain, and India, swept the city with vari-
ous genre films...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 181–205.
Published: 01 November 2019
... in Graf’s essay films recall his frequent forays into the crime genre, where essay film and crime film coalesce to become intertwined architectures that derive from similar ground plans. Not least, these maps also allow us to see how his essay films perform a constant historical work that fosters...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 129–157.
Published: 01 August 2011
.... Dreyfus, “Wild on
Heidegger: Comments,” Journal of Philosophy 60 (1963): 664–77, 677–80.
45. On the theory and history of American genre films, see Barry Keith Grant, ed.,Film Genre
Reader II (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995).
46. Andreas Killen, 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 67–82.
Published: 01 August 2014
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tion? If so, vernacular modernism would then describe work that did take
place, and nothing more—and if a film, genre, or national cinema missed its
opportunity, there is not much more to be said. But that cannot be right; more
is at stake. Hansen, after all, wants to talk about slapstick...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 137–170.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Herzog’s deliberately subjective documentaries. Although,
as a self-consciously nongeneric genre, the essay film has proved difficult to
reduce to a set of techniques, there is a definite set of features commonly asso-
ciated with its exponents: from Richter on, they have been conceived as inher...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 115–143.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and melodramas provided Jewish filmmakers with a
convenient setting for contemplating the urban Heimat and the assimilation
of Jews in it, the German war film genre—with its emphasis on homecoming
to the city—was a particularly effective framework for envisioning a Heimat
dissociated from the Volk.40...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 27–48.
Published: 01 February 2012
...,
have often focused on issues of history and memory and neglected cinemato-
graphic and spatial dimensions. Von Moltke argues for a sustained consider-
ation of these very dimensions and thus for a more-nuanced approach to a film
genre that some critics have dismissed as (merely) nostalgic...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 105–140.
Published: 01 February 2020
...”), it is remarkable that in his writings we find no mention of the popular early film genre of “serpentine dances,” whose potential relevance Michaud correctly identifies (though it is true that by the time Warburg appears to have first entered a movie theater in 1911 these films had long been out of circulation...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 33–44.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the blockbuster, in which everything becomes a brand, the genre films that for so long held the cinema together have ceased to exist as such. 26. Arnold, “Zorniger Defätismus.” 27. For a penetrating analysis of the working conditions and discursive emphases of young film critics in Germany today...
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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
...%), and video-on-demand (VOD) recommender systems (19%) as most likely to inflect preferences. When participants were asked specifically about watching films and series on VOD platforms (i.e., excluding cinema, television, DVD, and other channels of dissemination), word of mouth (51%) still far outranked genre...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 1–9.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of critical attention. Grisebach’s powerful Western , paired with Thomas Bidegain’s Les Cowboys (2015), is the subject of this issue’s lead article, by Codruţa Morari. The film sustains an enthralling dialogue with the conventions of American westerns. Although Grisebach is familiar with the genre, she...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 47–65.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of American films; their use of exterior locations; their
focus on action and thrills, physical stunts and attractions; their tempo, directness, and flatness;
their eccentricity and excess of situations over plot. Tsivian analyzes the Americanism of the
‘lower’ genres as an intellectual fashion...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 73–94.
Published: 01 August 2010
...
the world above is compromised. The values espoused by tunnel escape fiction
are consistent with the escape genre in general, but the tropes are manipulated
differently at different moments in the genre’s trajectory with relation to the
Wall. I want to look at three fiction films that focus directly...
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