The use and abuse of cinema
Subtitle: German legacies from the Weimar era to the present
By: Eric Rentschler
Series: Film and culture; Film and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780231073622; 9780231073639
Subjects: Motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: History lessons and courses in time; title: Pt. 1. Critical venues. How a social critic became a formative theorist; title: Hunger for experience, spectatorship, and the seventies; title: The passenger and the critical critic; title: The limits of aesthetic resistance; title: Springtime for UFA; title: Pt. 2. Serials and cycles. Mountains and modernity; title: Too lovely to be true; title: The management of shattered identity; title: After the war, before the wall; title: Pt. 3. From Oberhausen to Bitburg. Remembering not to forget; title: Many ways to fight a battle; title: How American is it?; title: The use and abuse of memory; title: A cinema of citation; title: The declaration of independents; title: Pt. 4. Postwall prospects. An archaeology of the Berlin school; title: The surveillance camera's quarry; title: Heritages and histories; title: Life in the shadows; title: Two trips to the Berlinale.