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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 (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 9–34.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Jennifer M. Kapczynski Robert Thalheim's 2007 film And Along Come Tourists ( Am Ende kommen Touristen ) is a critique of a contemporary Holocaust pedagogy geared to generating emotion rather than to critical engagement. Drawing on Theodor W. Adorno's essay “Education after Auschwitz,” this article...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 145–157.
Published: 01 August 2014
...) to a broader aesthetico-political
agenda. For Benjamin, conceptualizing such a leap in the 1930s, that agenda
could be realized, collectively, only in the play-space provided by film, only
through the mass amusement of cinema. This required him to extend “the
concept of play to the behavior...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 141–172.
Published: 01 February 2020
... to the library’s European films collection. 22 Hitlerjunge Quex shows the conversion of a twelve-year-old boy, Heini Völker, into a Hitler Youth member and, in the terms of Eric Rentschler’s classic study of Nazi cinema, into a “political medium.” 23 The film is loosely based on the 1932 murder of Herbert...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 53–78.
Published: 01 November 2019
...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...
FIGURES
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 171–188.
Published: 01 August 2014
... reconceived against the cultural backdrop of mass
migration and dislocation, military defense, political mobilization, and
global communication. I look at how changing conditions for film produc-
tion and exhibition reshaped theoretical discussions of cinema, particularly
the emergent discourse...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 1–8.
Published: 01 November 2014
... at the University of Paderborn titled
“The Holocaust on Screen.” The syllabus included the documentary A Film
Unfinished (2010) by the Israeli filmmaker Yael Hersonski. This film, which
incorporates a substantial amount of footage filmed by Nazi cameramen and
which depicts the horrendous living conditions...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 39–72.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to dedicate his future theoretical work to—among others—Klages, Bode, and Meyerhold. 57 Eisenstein’s montage of film attractions may be said to be a dialectical and materialist revisioning of this account of the image, in line with Benjamin’s own political thought. According to Klages, the capacity...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 111–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
...,
3. allow for conditions which make film aware of its public responsibility
and, consequently, in keeping with this responsibility, to seek appropri-
ate themes: film should embrace social documentation, political ques-
tions, educational concerns, and filmic innovations...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 133–148.
Published: 01 November 2023
... is a species that lives in the wild and grazes on our North American campuses. That German film studies is certainly not the core of the film studies discourse in Germany and is not often taught at German universities is not really important to me insofar as neither “Germany” nor its system of higher education...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 1–40.
Published: 01 November 2013
... the title “Das Auge der Welt”
(“The Eye of the World Ufa proposed a series of six educational compilation
films on such topics as occultism in film and profiles of individual directors,
8. Balázs did describe his film as an attempt to show a Querschnitt of urban life already in
1926, but he...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 181–205.
Published: 01 November 2019
... utopian projects of German postwar architecture with the failed project of a progressive and educational television in the 1960s. In the last few years Graf has increasingly focused on essay films that rewrite the history of visual media, such as his playful two-part account of film production in Germany...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 33–66.
Published: 01 August 2018
... Man to Man’: Interwar Venereal Disease Education Films for Military Audiences in France .” Gesnerus 72 , no. 1 : 15 – 39 . Bonah Christian , and Laukötter Anja . 2015 . “ Introduction: Screening Diseases; Films on Sex and Hygiene in Germany and France in the First Half...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 113–134.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., the film, which purports to educate
young people about the Holocaust, actually turns away from the Jewish vic-
tims in its melodramatic representation of the erroneous death of a historical
nonvictim. In doing so, the film undercuts as well any sort of critical under-
standing in the viewer...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 163–174.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the production of art in a new and political form. For Benjamin, this applies particularly to film. Although he was writing about analog film, his considerations can be applied to video art in recognition of the crucial role played by time-based, audiovisual media, especially where art’s present and future...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 9–38.
Published: 01 February 2011
...-Semitism open up new per-
spectives for thinking through the evolution of left-wing political violence.
In this article I concentrate on a constellation of films whose historiographi-
cal narratives tie the ghostly residue of German terrorism to another his-
torical trauma embedded in memory...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 31–47.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of Death Mills
The extent of Wilder’s involvement with the final version of Death Mills is
still a matter of dispute. What we do know is that this project to make what
the Americans called an “education film” about the concentration camps was
started in London by a Czech émigré named Hanŭs...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 85–110.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of ideological criticism into a forum for subjective auteurism. A close examination of Filmkritik 's Kracauerean founding principles and its dramatic change in editorial direction evinces competing ontological understandings of film criticism divided across axes of the formal, political, normative...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 1–7.
Published: 01 November 2015
... with the desirable charac-
teristics of the nation. The associations attached to this mode also included
nostalgia for the “good” aspects of the Weimar Republic, its cultural experi-
mentalism and political liberalism. Thus horror-film mode enabled a represen-
tation of Cold War Germany as the revival...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 7–20.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Erica Carter Abstract Focusing on the interwar writings of the film journalist and theorist Béla Balázs, this article argues for an understanding of Balázs’s film aesthetics as grounded in a popular politics of the body. Balázs understood film as a medium in which experiences of image, sound...
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