Title: The new German cinema : music, history, and the matter of style /
Authors: Flinn, Caryl.
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Motion pictures Germany; Motion picture music Germany History and criticism.
Contents: Introduction: "strategies of remembrance" -- Historical predecessors: melodrama and modernism. Mourning, melancholia, and "new German melodrama" ; Modernism's aftershocks: Peer Raben's film music for Fassbinder -- Music and the materials of history : Alexander Kluge. Kluge's assault on history: trauma, testimony, and difference in the patriot ; Undoing act 5: history, bodies, and operatic remains: Kluge's the power of emotion -- Queering history through camp and kitsch. Restaging history with fantasy: body, camp, and sound in the films of Treut, Ottinger, and Von Praunheim ; Introjecting kitsch: Werner Schroeter, music, and alterity -- Coda: working the pieces.