The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School - Couverture rigide

Abel, Marco

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1571134387 ISBN 13 : 9781571134387

Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The group of contemporary German directors collectively known as the Berlin School constitutes the most significant filmmaking movement to come out of Germany since the New German Cinema of the 1970s, not least because its films mark the emergence of a new film language in German cinema. The filmmakers belonging to the Berlin School, including Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, Angela Schanelec, Christoph Hochhäusler, Ulrich Köhler, Benjamin Heisenberg, Maren Ade, and Valeska Grisebach, are reminiscent in their auteurism of the directors of the New German Autorenkino and of French cinéma des auteurs of the 1960s. This volume is the first book-length study in any language of the Berlin School. Its central thesis - that the movement should be regarded as a counter-cinema - is built around the unusual style of realism employed in the films of this movement, a realism that presents audiences with images of a Germany that does not yet exist. Abel concludes that it is precisely how these films' images and sounds work that renders them political. They are political not because they are message-driven films but because they are made politically, thus performing a redistribution of the sensible - a direct artistic intervention in the way politics partitions ways of doing and making, saying and seeing.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Marco Abel is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Camden House Inc
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1571134387
• ISBN 13: 9781571134387
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360