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.
Table of Content
List of Berlin School Films
The Glossarists
Introduction: The Berlin School – Under Observation
Ambient Sound
The Anti-Hauptstadt
Bad Sex
Beginnings
Borders
Boredom
Cars
The Cut
Disengagement
Dorfdiskos
Eclectic Affinities
Endings
Familiar Places
Forests
Framings
Ghosts
Hotels
Interiority
Interpellation
Landscape
Language
Long Takes
Pools
Predecessors
Renovation
Seeing and Saying
Siblings
Striesow, Devid
Surveillance
Urban Miniatures
Violence
Wind
Image Sources
About the author
Brad Prager is associate professor of German studies and a member of the Film Studies Program at the University of Missouri.
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