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Performing the Modern German: Performance and Identity in Contemporary German Cinema (New Studies in European Cinema) - Softcover
Since the late 1990s, German cinema has gone through a period of astonishing productivity and success that has made it the focus of scholarly analysis once more. What can contemporary German cinema tell us about current German society and its problems? What are the distinguishing features of filmmaking in Germany today?
This book analyses the representation of individual and collective behaviour in post-unification German cinema. It looks at performances of gender, ethnicity and nationality in a wide range of contemporary German films. Using Performance Theory as a framework, the book discusses how modern German identities are presented as conformist, liberating or subversive responses to external challenges.
Theoretical considerations regarding the efficacy of performance and the dialectical relationship between transgression, resistance and normalization form the background for an analysis that investigates contemporary German films in terms of their function within the restructuring of post-unification German society.
This book analyses the representation of individual and collective behaviour in post-unification German cinema. It looks at performances of gender, ethnicity and nationality in a wide range of contemporary German films. Using Performance Theory as a framework, the book discusses how modern German identities are presented as conformist, liberating or subversive responses to external challenges.
Theoretical considerations regarding the efficacy of performance and the dialectical relationship between transgression, resistance and normalization form the background for an analysis that investigates contemporary German films in terms of their function within the restructuring of post-unification German society.
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Matthias Uecker is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham. He has published books on documentary writing in the Weimar Republic (Wirklichkeit und Literatur, 2007), Alexander Kluge’s television productions (Anti-Fernsehen?, 2000) and cultural politics in the Ruhr area during the Weimar Republic (Zwischen Industrieprovinz und Großstadthoffnung, 1994), as well as numerous articles on German literature and cinema.
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«[Eine] lobenswerte[ ], theoretisch fundierte[ ] Untersuchung [...], die dem englischsprachigen Fachpublikum wertvolle Hinweise auf die Auseinandersetzung der jüngsten Generation deutscher FilmemacherInnen mit ihrer Realität liefert.» (Wolfgang Schlott, MEDIENwissenschaft 4/2014)
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- PublisherPeter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Publication date2013
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