The new German cinema : music, history, and the matter of style

The new German cinema : music, history, and the matter of style / Caryl Flinn.

When New German cinema directors like R.W. Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity--national, political, personal, and sexual--music and film style played crucial roles. Most studies of the celebrated film movement, however, have sidestepped the role of music, a...

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Main Author: Flinn, Caryl
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Germany.
Motion picture music > Germany > History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
Motion picture music
Motion pictures
Germany
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "strategies of remembrance"
  • Mourning, melancholia, and "new German melodrama"
  • Modernism's aftershocks: Peer Raben's film music for Fassbinder
  • 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
  • Restaging history with fantasy: body, camp, and sound in the films of Treut, Ottinger, and Von Praunheim
  • Introjecting kitsch: Werner Schroeter, music, and alterity.

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