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By Eric Rentschler

ISBN-10: 0231073623

ISBN-13: 9780231073622

ISBN-10: 0231073631

ISBN-13: 9780231073639

Eric Rentschler explores the reveal fantasies and spectacles that derive from Germany’s fraught glossy event and follows the lines of those attractions and sounds to the postmillenial current. every one chapters encompasses a stirring minidrama, discussing famous critics and theorists corresponding to Siegfried Kracauer and Rudolf Arnheim; key New German administrators reminiscent of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Alexander Kluge; motion pictures from the so-called Berlin tuition, relatively these of Christoph Hochhäusler, Thomas Arslan, and Christian Petzold; and seminal genres akin to the mountain movie, the early sound musical, the postwar rubble movie, and up to date background cinema. Rentschler balances background and idea all through his shut readings.

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