The Cosmopolitan Screen

by Schindler, Stephan K.

• ISBN13: 9780472069668
• ISBN10: 0472069667
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-30
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

The Cosmopolitan Screen investigates the extent to which German filmmakers throughout the last sixty years have engaged with the ever more fluid trade of images, meanings, and identities in a globalizing world. The volume traces German cinema's negotiation of the global as a multilayered story in which the hopes and the fears about the prospect of a more cosmopolitan culture often go hand in hand. Featuring original work from some of the foremost scholars in German film studies from either side of the Atlantic, The Cosmopolitan Screen makes a persuasive case for rethinking the place of the "national" within an increasingly cosmopolitan and global economy of images and sounds. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Against the Wall? The Global Imaginary of German Cinema	p. 1
Postwar German Cinema Reconsidered: Far from Home
Gained in Translation: Exile Cinema and the Case of Billy Wilder	p. 25
Convertible Provincialism: Heimat and Mobility in the 1950s	p. 39
Colorful Worlds: The West German Revue Film of the 1950s	p. 58
On Location: Das doppelte Lottchen, The Parent Trap, and Geographical Knowledge in the Age of Disney	p. 77
Reworking the National
The Mourning of Labor: Work in German Film in the Wake of the Really Existing Economic Miracle	p. 95
Drums along the Amazon: The Rhythm of the Iron System in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo	p. 117
Somebody's Garbage: Depictions of Turkish Residents in 1990s German Film	p. 140
From Riefenstahl to Riemann: Revisiting the Question of Women's Cinema in the German Context	p. 159
Afterimages of the Holocaust: A German Affair?
Judgment in the Twilight: German and American Courtroom Dramas and the Holocaust	p. 173
Displaced Images: The Holocaust in German Film	p. 192
An Icon between the Fronts: Vilsmaier's Recast Marlene	p. 206
German Cinema and the Global Imaginary Today
Catholic Pictorialism: Religion as Style in the Films of Lars von Trier and Tom Tykwer	p. 225
The Politics of Contempt and the Ecology of Images: Michael Haneke's Code inconnu	p. 235
Addressing the Global in Recent Nonfiction Film Production	p. 253
The New Media Artist and the Matrix: Telemediation and the Virtual World of Bjorn Melhus	p. 269
Bibliography	p. 287
Contributors	p. 301
Index	p. 307
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