The politics of French and German cinema between the onset of the Great Depression and the end of World War II is far from a new topic of study. However, scholars have typically focused on one country or the other, rather than comparing the two, and prioritized high-profile directors (for example, Jean Renoir, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Leni Riefenstahl, and Veit Harlan) whose work benefited from direct party sponsorship and served a clearly propagandistic function. Reflecting the evolution of cultural history and film studies over the past decade, this collection of essays seeks to enrich the traditional approach in three ways. The first is by expanding the definition of politics beyond official party or state discourse to include power-related issues such as representation of gender and gender roles; access to material resources including funding and technology; relationships between film creators and industry or government officials; and competition between commercial and ideological priorities in film production, censorship, and distribution.
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In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2009
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–2 (2 total)
Daisuke Miyao
The process of modernization in Japan appeared as a separation of the senses and remapping of the body, particularly privileging the sense of vision. How did the filmmakers, critics, and novelists in the 1920s and 1930s respond to such a reorganization of the body and the elevation of vision in the context of film culture? How did they formulate a cinematic discourse on remapping the body when the status of cinema was still in flux and its definition was debated? Focusing on cinematic commentary made by different writers, this article tackles these questions. Sato Haruo, Ozu Yasujiro, and Iwasaki Akira questioned the separation of the senses, which was often enforced by state. Inspired by German cinema released in Japan at that time, they explored the notion of the haptic in cinema and problematized the privileged sense of vision in this new visual medium.
Alexandra Ludewig
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, unification, and the subsequent reinvention
of the nation, German filmmakers have revisited their
country’s cinematic traditions with a view to placing themselves creatively
in the tradition of its intellectual and artistic heritage. One of
the legacies that has served as a point of a new departure has been
the Heimatfilm, or homeland film. As a genre it is renowned for its
restorative stance, as it often features dialect and the renunciation of
current topicality, advocates traditional gender roles, has antimodern
overtones of rural, pastoral, often alpine, images, and expresses
a longing for premodern times, for “the good old days” that supposedly
still exist away from the urban centres. The Nazis used Heimat
films in an effort “to idealize ‘Bauerntum’ as the site of desirable traditions
and stereotyped the foreign (most often the urban) as the
breeding ground for moral decay.”
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2004
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 27–48 (21 total)
Barbara Mennel
Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, and Deniz Göktürk, eds., The German Cinema Book (London: British Film Institute, 2002)
Lutz Koepnick, The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002)
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2004
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 53–62 (9 total)
Catherine Epstein
Joshua Feinstein, The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
Leonie Naughton, Film Culture, Unification, and the “New” Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002)
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2003
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 101–108 (7 total)
Hanna Schissler, ed. The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949-1968 (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001)
Review by Johannes von Moltke
Uta G. Poiger, Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2000)
Review by Andrea Orzoff
Felix Philipp Lutz, Das Geschichtsbewußtsein der Deutschen: Grundlagen der politschen Kultur in Ost und West (Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2000)
Review by Eric Langenbacher
Kathleen James-Chakraborty, German Architecture for a Mass Audience (London: Routledge, 2000)
Review by Eric Jarosinski
Thomas Elsaesser, Michael Wedel, eds., The BFI Companion to German Cinema (London: British Film Institute, 1999)
Review by Christian Rogowski
Jeffrey Verhey, The Spirit of 1914. Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Review by Frank Biess
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2001
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 113–137 (24 total)
Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter
War, Genocide and “Condensed Reality”
David Wildermuth
“condensed reality” nor with introducing a new phase of the cinematic-historic treatment of National Socialism. German Cinema and UMUV Recent scholarship has illustrated how German historical films in general, and films on the Third Reich, World War
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 64–83 (20 total)
Rabbi William (Willy) Wolff, Ze'ev ben Avraham v'Leah
(13 February 1927–8 July 2020)
Tony Bayfield, Julia Neuberger, Alexandra Wright, Manuela Koska, and Britta Wauer
something that seemed impossible: a film about a ninety-year-old was one of the highest grossing documentaries in German cinemas in 2016, and Willy Wolff himself became an admired movie star. For me, and I am sure many will agree, Willy Wolff was one of
Knitted Naked Suits and Shedding Skins
The Body Politics of Popfeminist Musical Performances in the Twenty-first Century
Maria Stehle
25, no. 2 (2013): 222–239, here 237. 17 Sabine Hake, “German Cinema as European Cinema: learning from Film History,” Film History 25, nos. 1–2 (2013): 110–117, here 116. 18 Zoe Camp, “Peaches and Margaret Cho Don Fuzzy Genitalia In ‘Dick In The
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 99–116 (18 total)
Staying Local, Going Global
Sustaining German Culture in “Dark” Times
Annika Orich
, Deutschland 86 , and Deutschland 89 that are also streamed globally. 69 Eric Rentschler, “From New German Cinema to the Post-Wall Cinema of Consensus,” in Cinema and Nation , ed. Mette Hjort, and Scott MacKenzie (London, 2000), 245–261, here 258. 70
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 51–73 (23 total)