A Companion to German Cinema
CNCZ - The Wiley-Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
1. Auflage Februar 2012
618 Seiten, Hardcover
Lehrbuch
Kurzbeschreibung
A Companion to German Cinema offers a wide-ranging collection of essays, distinctive for the way it reorients the field to the global twenty-first century, that demonstrate state-of-play scholarship on German cinema at a time during which German cinema has once again begun to flourish.
A Companion to German Cinema offers a wide-ranging collection of essays demonstrating state-of-play scholarship on German cinema at a time during which cinema studies as well as German cinema have once again begun to flourish.
* Offers a careful combination of theoretical rigor, conceptual accessibility, and intellectual inclusiveness
* Includes essays by well-known writers as well as up-and-coming scholars who take innovative critical approaches to both time-honored and emergent areas in the field, especially regarding race, gender, sexuality, and (trans)nationalism
* Distinctive for its contemporary relevance, reorienting the field to the global twenty-first century
* Fills critical gaps in the extant scholarship, opening the field onto new terrains of critical engagement
Abbreviations
Introduction
First Movement: Destabilization
Second Movement: Dislocation
Third Movement: Disidentification
Andrea Mensch is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at North Carolina State University, and has also taught film and literature courses in London and at the NCSU Prague Institute. She was associate editor as well as book reviews editor for Jouvert: A Journal of Post-colonial Studies.