German National Cinema (National Cinemas)
Editorial Reviews
Review
"German National Cinema provides colleagues and students with a stimulating and comprehensive historical summary of German cinema from Skladanowsky to Tykwer. The author's arguments are cogent, persuasive, and incorporate numerous current theoretical approaches without the use of technical jargon. It will serve as a valuable resource tool for colleagues teaching German cinema and should be in every college library."
-Franz A. Birgel, Muhlenberg College
"Hake (German studies, Univ. of Pittsburgh) offers an impressively comprehensive account that bristles with intriguing questions and opens new perspectives on many of the seven phases she persuasively identifies in German film history. She provides a more balanced presentation of the 1950s than has heretofore been available in English and also does a good job sketching East German cinema and the new initiatives since national reunification in 1991."
-S. Liebman, CHOICE
"...an excellent introduction to the history of German cinema."
-Jaimey Fisher, Tulane University German Studies Review, 2003
Book Description
German National Cinema is the first comprehensive account in English of German cinema from its origins to the present. Covering all the major movements from Expressionism to the New Wave, Sabine Hake traces the development of German cinema in relation to political and social change, from the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich to the complex divisions of post-war Germany and the impact of reunification.
Focusing on key themes including genre, audiences and stars, Hake examines German film's relationship with other national cinemas and cultural practices, and traces the artistic under and counter-currents, technological innovations, and social transformations that defined each era of German film. She explores the conflicts and contradictions which have sustained the tension between cinema and politics and cinema and high culture in Germany, and shows how a highly politicized cinema often produced surprisingly apolitical films.
German National Cinema (National Cinemas)
German National Cinema (National Cinemas),SABINE HAKE,Routledge,0415089026,Cinema/Film: Book,Film & Video - General,Germany,History,Motion picture industry,Motion pictures,Performing Arts,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Films, cinema,History of specific subjects
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