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After the Avant-Garde - Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film (Hardcover)
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After the Avant-Garde - Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film (Hardcover)
Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
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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.
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