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The use and abuse of cinema : German legacies from the Weimar era to the present / Eric Rentschler.

By: Rentschler, Eric [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookDescription: vi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780231073622 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780231073639 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 791.430943/0904
Contents:
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.
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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.

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