The Cosmopolitan Screen (Between the Local and the Global: Revisiting Sites of Postwar German Cinema): German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to Contributor(s): Schindler, Stephan K. (Editor), Koepnick, Lutz (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0472069667 ISBN-13: 9780472069668 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $31.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - History | Europe - Germany |
Dewey: 791.430 |
LCCN: 2006033987 |
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, & Politics in Germany |
Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.35" W x 9.05" (1.00 lbs) 328 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. "Offering fresh paradigms, perspectives and cross-connections, this volume pushes German film scholarship far beyond its old national framework." "Each of the essays, like the volume as a whole, offers new insights into the circulation of German images, sounds, stories, and texts, precisely by considering them beyond the narrow confines of a 'uniquely German' national identity. Schindler and Koepnick have envisioned a new future for both German Studies and Film Studies by locating postwar German cinema within global networks of production, reception, and technological innovation and change." --Erica Carter, Professor and Chair of German Studies, University of Warwick Lutz Koepnick is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Stephan K. Schindler is Professor of German, Comparative Literature and Film Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. |