After the Avant-Garde - Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film (Hardcover)

Filmmaking in Germany and Austria has changed dramatically in the last decades with digitalization and the use of video and the Internet. Yet despite predictions of a negative effect on experimental film, the German and Austrian filmscape is filled with dynamic new experiments, as new technological possibilities push a break with the past, encouraging artists to find new forms. This volume of theoretically engaged essays explores this new landscape, introducing the work of established and emerging filmmakers, offering assessments of the intent and effect of their productions, and describing overall trends. It also explores the relationship of today's artists to the historical avant-garde, revealing a vibrant form of artistic engagement that has a history but has certainly not ended. The essays address such questions as the effects of transformations of cinematic space; the political effects of the breakdown of barriers between experimental film and advertising, and of the rise of music videos and reality TV; the effects of the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the rise of capitalism, and the European movement on experimental film work; and whether these experiments are aligned with mass political movements -- for instance that of anti-globalization -- or whether they strive for autonomy from quotidian politics. Randall Halle is Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Reinhild Steingrover is Associate Professor of German in the Department of Humanities at the Eastman School of Music.

General

Imprint:	Camden House
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	December 2008
Editors:	Randall Norman Halle (Customer) • Reinhild Steingroever (Author)
Contributors:	Alice A. Kuzniar (Contributor) • Annette Jael Lehman (Contributor) • Bernadette Wegenstein (Contributor) • Christina Schmid (Contributor) • Claus Loeser • Larson Powell (Customer) • Nanna Heidenreich • Owen Lyons (Contributor)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	371
ISBN-13:	978-1-57113-365-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Promotions
LSN:	1-57113-365-8
Barcode:	9781571133656

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