Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 430 g
The Ecological Archive of German Cinema
Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 430 g
Reihe: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
ISBN: 978-1-64014-161-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
From its beginnings, some of German film's most prominent genres and directors have focused on the natural world and its transformations by humans. Heimat films, "city symphonies," mountain films, and rubble films all blend the boundary between landscape documentary and fiction film. Yet German film studies has been slow to adopt an environmental focus, concentrating (understandably) on its subject matter's political implications. This book reveals critical connections between German film, sociopolitical context, and environment, showing it to have been a creative catalyst for the social and ecological transformation of the Anthropocene.
The book first considers the interplay between German film and environmental history in films and discourses of Heimat. Weimar-era films such as E. A. Dupont's Die Geierwally (1921), Carl Ludwig Achaz-Duisberg's Sprengbagger 1010 (1929), and Phil Jützi's Hunger in Waldenburg (1929) document and create a forum for discussing environmental change. The book then looks at film as a visual archive of and catalyst for infrastructure development, focusing on Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927), the mountain films of Arnold Fanck, and the Berlin films Stadt der Millionen (Adolf Trotz, 1925), Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Walter Ruttmann, 1927), and Menschen am Sonntag (1930). Nazi-era and postwar films are also examined. By exploring German film history alongside environmental history and theory, this book provides a case study of the power of film within processes of environmental transformation.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Nicht-Graphische Kunstformen
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
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Acknowledgments
Introduction. Filmic Worlds, Creativity, and Materiality, or: Welcome to the Anthropocene?
PART I
1. Companions and Combatants (or, Hugs, Fights, and Bites): Curating Multispecies Environments in Die Geierwally
2. From Industrial Heimat to Bavarian Heimatfilm: Sprengbagger 1010, Hunger in Waldenburg, and the Consolidation of a Genre
PART II
3. Infrastructure in the Anthropo(s)cene: Fritz Lang's Metropolis as Ecological Archive
4. Image, Environment, Infrastructure: The Social Ecologies of the Bergfilm
5. Greenwashing in Black and White: Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt, Die Stadt der Millionen, Menschen am Sonntag
Epilogue. Welcome Back: Reflexive Environments in Recent German Cinema
Works Cited
Index
