Rentschler, Eric,
The use and abuse of cinema : German legacies from the Weimar era to the present / Eric Rentschler. - vi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: History lessons and courses in time -- Pt. 1. Critical venues -- How a social critic became a formative theorist -- Hunger for experience, spectatorship, and the seventies -- The passenger and the critical critic -- The limits of aesthetic resistance -- Springtime for UFA -- Pt. 2. Serials and cycles -- Mountains and modernity -- Too lovely to be true -- The management of shattered identity -- After the war, before the wall -- Pt. 3. From Oberhausen to Bitburg -- Remembering not to forget -- Many ways to fight a battle -- How American is it? -- The use and abuse of memory -- A cinema of citation -- The declaration of independents -- Pt. 4. Postwall prospects -- An archaeology of the Berlin school -- The surveillance camera's quarry -- Heritages and histories -- Life in the shadows -- Two trips to the Berlinale.
9780231073622 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231073639 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2014038202
Motion pictures--History--Germany--20th century.
PN1993.5.G3 / R43 2015
791.430943/0904
The use and abuse of cinema : German legacies from the Weimar era to the present / Eric Rentschler. - vi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: History lessons and courses in time -- Pt. 1. Critical venues -- How a social critic became a formative theorist -- Hunger for experience, spectatorship, and the seventies -- The passenger and the critical critic -- The limits of aesthetic resistance -- Springtime for UFA -- Pt. 2. Serials and cycles -- Mountains and modernity -- Too lovely to be true -- The management of shattered identity -- After the war, before the wall -- Pt. 3. From Oberhausen to Bitburg -- Remembering not to forget -- Many ways to fight a battle -- How American is it? -- The use and abuse of memory -- A cinema of citation -- The declaration of independents -- Pt. 4. Postwall prospects -- An archaeology of the Berlin school -- The surveillance camera's quarry -- Heritages and histories -- Life in the shadows -- Two trips to the Berlinale.
9780231073622 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231073639 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2014038202
Motion pictures--History--Germany--20th century.
PN1993.5.G3 / R43 2015
791.430943/0904