Berlin school glossary : an ABC of the new wave in German cinema

__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 Content: ""Cover "" ""Half Title "" ""Title Page "" ""Copyright "" ""Table of Contents "" ""Acknowledgment "" ""List of Berlin School Films"" ""The Glossarists "" ""Chapter 1: Introduction: The Berlin Schoolâ€?Under Observation "" ""Chapter 2: Ambient Sound "" ""Chapter 3: The Anti-Hauptstadt "" ""Chapter 4: Bad Sex "" ""Chapter 5: Beginnings "" ""Chapter 6: Borders "" ""Chapter 7: Boredom "" ""Chapter 8: Cars . . ."" ""Chapter 9: The Cut "" ""Chapter 10: Disengagement "" ""Chapter 11: Dorfdiskos "" ""Chapter 12: Eclectic Affinities "" ""Chapter 13: Endings "" ""Chapter 14: Familiar Places """"Chapter 15: Forests "" ""Chapter 16: Framings "" ""Chapter 17: Ghosts "" ""Chapter 18: Hotels "" ""Chapter 19: Interiority "" ""Chapter 20: Interpellation "" ""Chapter 21: Landscape "" ""Chapter 22: Language (Absence Thereof) "" ""Chapter 23: Long Takes . . ."" ""Chapter 24: Pools "" ""Chapter 25: Predecessors: The German Prehistory of the Berlin School "" ""Chapter 26: Renovation "" ""Chapter 27: Seeing and Saying "" ""Chapter 28: Siblings "" ""Chapter 29: Striesow, Devid "" ""Chapter 30: Surveillance "" ""Chapter 31: Urbaban Miniatures: New Berlin Films of the 1980s """"Chapter 32: Violence "" ""Chapter 33: Wind "" ""Chapter 34: Image Sources "" ""Index "" ""Back Cover "" "Berlin School Glossary is the first major anthology to mark the increasing international importance of a group of contemporary German and Austrian filmmakers initially known as 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."--P. [4] of cover. "Berlin School Glossary is the first major anthology to mark the increasing international importance of a group of contemporary German and Austrian filmmakers initially known as 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."--Page 4 of cover

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.

This book 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 Hochhausler, 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 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 as the Berlin School. This volume is organized as a glossary and is combined with an informative introduction that is essential to scholars and fans of the German New Wave.