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Berlin School Glossary
An ABC of the New Wave in German Cinema
by Roger F. Cook, Lutz P. Koepnick, Kristin Kopp and Brad Prager
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Book Presentation:
Berlin School Glossary is the first major publication to mark the increasing international importance of a group of contemporary German and Austrian filmmakers initially known by the name the Berlin School: Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, Christoph Hochhäusler, Jessica Hausner, and others. The study elaborates on the innovative strategies and formal techniques that distinguish these films, specifically questions of movement, space, spectatorship, representation, desire, location, and narrative. Abandoning the usual format of essay-length analyses of individual films and directors, the volume is organized as an actual glossary with entries such as bad sex, cars, the cut, endings, familiar places, forests, ghosts, hotels, interiority, landscapes, siblings, surveillance, swimming pools, and wind. This unique format combined with an informative introduction will be essential to scholars and fans of the German New Wave
About the authors:
Roger F. Cook is Professor of German Studies and Director of the Film Studies Program at the University of Missouri. He co-edited The Cinema of Wim Wenders: Image, Narrative, and the Postmodern Condition (Wayne State University Press, 1996) and has written extensively on New German Cinema and contemporary German film, with a current focus on the Berlin School. His work engages research in neuroscience and media theory to investigate issues of embodiment and affect in film viewing.
Lutz Koepnick is professor of German film and media studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
Kristin Kopp is associate professor of German studies at the University of Missouri–Columbia.
Brad Prager is Associate Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of Missouri. He has authored two monographs: Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (2007) and The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (2007). His articles have appeared in New German Critique, Modern Language Review and Art History. Most recently he has co-edited the collections The Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (2010) and Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory (2008).
Press Reviews:
"Berlin School Glossary is a remarkable achievement for how the volume manages to create a conversation among Berlin School films, directors, and film scholars―one that invites others to continue the conversation." ― Cinaeste
"This noteworthy volume introduces readers to the contemporary German art film movement known as the Berlin School via 33 brief essays on places, themes, and formal tropes that distinguish the movement's films. With entries on cars, pools, hotels, bad sex, and ambient sounds, among other subjects, the glossary format mirrors the films' commitment to involving viewers in an 'aesthetic of discovery.' The result is a readable, engaging collection of thought-provoking pieces by noted scholars, interspersed with numerous illustrations from the films. . . . Its intriguing format and unique range of topics will also appeal to film studies scholars. . . . Highly recommended." ― CHOICE
“Berlin School Glossary succeeds very well. Although anyone who has studied the Berlin School films in any depth may not be surprised by some of the observations on long takes, endings, boredom, and so on, these will certainly be enlightening to the cinephile or any student new to the topic; and there is enough quirkiness here, with entries on pools, Dorfdiskos, hotels, forests, and the near ubiquitous Berlin School actor Devid Striesow, to keep the interest of anyone with more substantial prior knowledge.” ― Monatshefte
See the publisher website: Intellect Books
> From the same authors:
The Construction of Testimony (2020)
Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes
Dir. Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager and Markus Zisselsberger
The Collapse of the Conventional (2010)
German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Dir. Brad Prager and Jaimey Fisher
The Cinema of Werner Herzog (2007)
Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth
by Brad Prager
Subject: Director > Werner Herzog
The Cinema of Wim Wenders (1997)
Image, Narrative and the Postmodern Condition
Dir. Roger F. Cook and Gerd Gemünden
Subject: Director > Wim Wenders
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