Sensitive Subjects

The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-630-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Film Europa

Both politically and aesthetically, the contemporary German and Austrian film landscape is a far cry from the early days of the medium, when critics like Siegfried Kracauer produced foundational works of film theory amid the tumult of the early twentieth century. Yet, as Leila Mukhida demonstrates in this innovative study, the writings of figures like Kracauer and Walter Benjamin in fact remain an undervalued tool for understanding political cinema today. Through illuminating explorations of Michael Haneke, Valeska Grisebach, Andreas Dresen, and other filmmakers of the post-reunification era, Mukhida develops an analysis centered on film aesthetics and experience, showing how medium-specific devices like lighting, sound, and mise-en-scène can help to cultivate political sensitivity in spectators.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukhida, Leila

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Twenty-First-Century Worker Film: Workingman’s Death (2004) by Michael Glawogger and Karger (2007) by Elke Hauck

Chapter 2. Radical Realisms: Angela Schanelec’s Marseille (2004), Andreas Dresen’s Halt Auf Freier Strecke (2011), and Gerhard Friedl’s Hat Wolff Von Amerongen Konkursdelikte Begangen? (2004)

Chapter 3. Fragmented Stories for Fragmented Viewers: 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994) and Code Inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (2000) by Michael Haneke

Chapter 4. Sensitive Subjects: Shock and Distraction in Hundstage (2001) by Ulrich Seidl, and in Sehnsucht (2006) by Valeska Grisebach

Conclusion

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mukhida, Leila
Leila Mukhida is Lecturer in Modern German Studies at the University of Cambridge.