Collapse of the Conventional : German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Imitation of Life: The Aesthetics of Agfacolor in Recent Historical Cinema -- Public Viewing: Soccer Patriotism and Post-Cinema -- More War Stories: Stalingrad and Downfall -- Neo-feminist Mütterfilm? The Emotional Politics of Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse -- Dresden: The Return of History as Soap -- Terrains Vagues: Landscapes of Unification in Oskar Roehler's No Place to Go -- German Historical Film as Production Trend: European Heritage Cinema and Melodrama in The Lives of Others -- A World of Objects: Consumer Culture in Filmic Reconstructions of the GDR -- Playing Hide-and-Seek with Tradition: Games, Aesthetic Form, and Social Critique in German Cinema following the Wende -- Imaging Germany: The (Political) Cinema of Christian Petzold -- Christoph Hochhäusler's This Very Moment: The Berlin School and the Politics of Spatial Aesthetics in the German-Polish Borderlands -- Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei: Edukating the Post-Left Generation -- The Global Elsewhere: Ursula Biemann's Multimedia Countergeography -- Glimpses of Freedom: The Reemergence of Utopian Longing in German Cinema -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- Contributors -- Index -- Back_Cover.

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