| Author | : Hester Baer |
| File Size | : 46,5 Mb |
| Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 05 February 2021 |
| ISBN | : 9789048551958 |
| Pages | : null pages |
German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism by Hester Baer Book PDF Summary
This book presents a new history of German film from 1980-2010, a period that witnessed rapid transformations, including intensified globalization, a restructured world economy, geopolitical realignment, and technological change, all of which have affected cinema in fundamental ways. Rethinking the conventional periodization of German film history, Baer posits 1980-rather than 1989-as a crucial turning point for German cinema's embrace of a new market orientation and move away from the state-sponsored film culture that characterized both DEFA and the New German Cinema. Reading films from East, West, and post-unification Germany together, Baer argues that contemporary German cinema is characterized most strongly by its origins in and responses to advanced capitalism. Informed by a feminist approach and in dialogue with prominent theories of contemporary film, the book places a special focus on how German films make visible the neoliberal recasting of gender and national identities around the new millennium.