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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Caryl Flinn |
| ISBN: | 0520228952 9780520228955 0520238230 9780520238237 |
| OCLC Number: | 51837845 |
| Description: | viii, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: "strategies of remembrance" -- Mourning, melancholia, and "new German melodrama" -- Modernism's aftershocks: Peer Raben's film music for Fassbinder -- Kluge's assault on history: trauma, testimony, and difference in The patriot -- Undoing act 5: history, bodies, and operatic remains: Kluge's The power of emotion -- Restaging history with fantasy: body, camp, and sound in the films of Treut, Ottinger, and von Praunheim -- Introjecting kitsch: Werner Schroeter, music, and alterity. |
| Responsibility: | Caryl Flinn. |
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Abstract:
When New German cinema directors like R W Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity - national, political, personal, and sexual - music and film style played crucial roles. This book identifies styles of historical remembrance in which music participates.
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"Using the musical soundtrack as her 'Auftakt, ' Caryl Flinn revisits melodrama and melancholia, camp and kitsch, and memory and shock in the works of such filmmakers as Fassbinder, Kluge, Ottinger, Treut, and Schroeter. The resulting intellectual counterpoint is dazzling." Read more...
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- Motion pictures -- Germany.
- Motion picture music -- Germany -- History and criticism.
- Cinéma -- Allemagne.
- Film, Musique de -- Allemagne -- Histoire et critique.
- Filmkunst.
- Filmmuziek.
- Filmmusik.
- Geschichtsdarstellung.
- Film.
- Neuer deutscher Film.
- Deutschland.
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