Markus Zisselsberger

Brad Prager

Erin McGlothlin

Groundbreaking analyses of the vast archive of newly digitized and released outtakes from Lanzmann's masterwork.

Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes

The Construction of Testimony

the Holocaust in twenty-first century documentary film

After the fact

David Bathrick

Michael David Richardson

Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust

Documents, Aesthetics, Memory

Visualizing the Holocaust

Jaimey Fisher

"Fisher and Prager have assembled a significant group of essays by the emerging generation of German cinema experts in the US. The anthology is the first serious attempt to retell the history of the New German Cinema and the `consensus' cinema of the 1900s through the lens of contemporary, post-2000 films in all their diversity. Film scholars, students of the German cinema, and the general reading public will discover here why `Deutsches Kino' is once again in the limelight."---Marc Silberman, chair of the Department of German at the University of Wisconsin, Madison "The Collapse of the Conventional offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary German cinema and is bound to stimulate new debates about the legacies of New German Cinema and its politics of the aesthetic. A must for everyone interested in German cinema and Contemporary culture."---Sabine Hake, Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin "Bringing together many of the most important scholars of German film, this hugely significant collection offers a fascinating and subtle account of the contours of the political in the post-Wall cinematic landscape."---Paul Cooke, professor of German cultural studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds

German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

The Collapse of the Conventional

The work of the groundbreaking writers and artists of German Romanticism -- including the writers Tieck, Brentano, and Eichendorff and the artists Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge -- followed from the philosophical arguments of the German Idealists, who placed emphasis on exploring the subjective space of the imagination. The Romantic perspective was a form of engagement with Idealist discourses, especially Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Fichte's Science of Knowledge. Through an aggressive, speculative reading of Kant, the Romantics abandoned the binary distinction between the palpable outer world and the ungraspable space of the mind's eye and were therefore compelled to develop new terms for understanding the distinction between "internal" and "external." In this light, Brad Prager urges a reassessment of some of Romanticism's major oppositional tropes, contending that binaries such as "self and other," "symbol and allegory," and "light and dark," should be understood as alternatives to Lessing's distinction between interior and exterior worlds. Prager thus crosses the boundaries between philosophy, literature, and art history to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience, examining the interplay of text and image in the formulation of Romantic epistemology. Brad Prager is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Writing Images

Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism

Offers not only a close reading but also a film-historical contextualization of Phoenix, constituting the most significant and thorough study of Petzold's film to date.

Phoenix

Groundbreaking analyses of the vast archive of newly digitized and released outtakes from Lanzmann’s masterwork.

Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Its Outtakes

A Companion to Werner Herzog showcases over two dozen original scholarly essays examining nearly five decades of filmmaking by one of the most acclaimed and innovative figures in world cinema. - First collection in twenty years dedicated to examining Herzog's expansive career - Features essays by international scholars and Herzog specialists - Addresses a broad spectrum of the director's films, from his earliest works such as Signs of Life and Fata Morgana to such recent films as The Bad Lieutenant and Encounters at the End of the World - Offers creative, innovative approaches guided by film history, art history, and philosophy - Includes a comprehensive filmography that also features a list of the director's acting appearances and opera productions - Explores the director's engagement with music and the arts, his self-stylization as a global filmmaker, his Bavarian origins, and even his love-hate relationship with the actor Klaus Kinski.

A Companion to Werner Herzog

A Companion to Werner Herzog represents more than two dozen original scholarly essays examining five decades of cinematic contributions by one of the world's most acclaimed and innovative filmmakers.

More than any other director, Werner Herzog is renowned for pushing the boundaries of conventional cinema, especially those between the fictional and the factual, the fantastic and the real. Drawing on over 35 films, this book explores his continuing search for what he has described as the 'ecstatic truth'

Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth

The Cinema of Werner Herzog

Alison Guenther-Pal

Antje Ascheid

Christian Rogowski

John E. Davidson

Stefan Soldovieri

Christine Haase

Lutz Koepnick

Janet McCabe

Nancy P. Nenno

Robert C. Reimer

Richard W. McCormick

Tim Bergfelder

Elizabeth Mittman

Alasdair King

Hester Baer

Light Motives undertakes a long overdue critical reassessment of German popular cinema, challenging the traditional view of German film history and offering new ways to think about popular cinema in general.

Brad Prager

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