New Austrian Film

Herausgeber: Dassanowsky, Robert Von; Speck, Oliver C.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First English language study on New Austrian Film 1990s to the present A collection of critical essays on New Austrian filmmakers and films by international cinema and culture scholars Introduces and examines New Austrian Film in cinematic, cultural, theoretical and film historical contexts

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9781782385103
• ISBN-10: 178238510X
• Artikelnr.: 40522069

Autorenporträt

Robert von Dassanowsky is Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and also works as an independent film producer. He is the author of Austrian Cinema: A History (2005), the first English language survey of that nation's film art. Other books include The Nameable and the Unnameable: Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Schwierige" Revisited (co-ed., 2011), Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metafilm (ed., 2012), World Film Locations: Vienna (ed., 2012), and Screening Transcendence: Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933-38 (2014).  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: New Austrian Film: The Non-Exceptional Exception
PART I: EARLY VISIONS/INFLUENTIAL SITES
Chapter 1. "The Experiment is Not Yet Finished": VALIE EXPORT's Avant Garde
Film
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
Chapter 2. Franz Antel's Bockerer Series: Constructing the Historical Myth
of the Austrian Second Republic
Joseph Moser
Chapter 3. Historical Drama of a Well-Intentioned Kind: Wolfgang Glück's:
38: Auch das war Wien
Felix Tweraser
Chapter 4. Cartographies of Identity: Memory and History in Ruth
Beckermann's Documentary Films
Christina Guenther
PART II: BARBARA ALBERT AND THE FEMALE RE-FOCUS
Chapter 5. A New Community of Women: Barbara Albert's Nordrand/Northern
Skirts
Dagmar Lorenz
Chapter 6. Metonymic Visions: Globalization, Consumer Culture, and Mediated
Affect in Barbara Albert's Böse Zellen/Free Radicals
Imke Meyer
Chapter 7. Place and Space of Contemporary Austria in Barbara Albert's
Feature Films
Mary Wauchope
Chapter 8. Connecting with Others; Mirroring Difference: Films by Kathrin
Resetarits - Director, Actress, and Writer
Verena Mund
Chapter 9. Not Politics but People: The "Feminine Aesthetic" of Valeska
Grisebach and Jessica Hausner
Catherine Wheatley
PART III: MICHAEL HANEKE AND ULRICH SEIDL: A QUESTION OF SPECTATORIAL
DESTINATION
Chapter 10. Allegory in Michael Haneke's The Seventh Continent
Eva Kuttenberg
Chapter 11. "What-Goes-Without-Saying": Michael Haneke's Confrontation with
Myths in Funny Games
Gabi Wurmitzer
Chapter 12. Unseen/Obscene: The (Non-) Framing of the Sexual Act in Michael
Haneke's La Pianiste
Catherine Wheatley
Chapter 13. The Possibility of Desire in a Conformist World: The Cinema of
Ulrich Seidl
Matthias Frey
Chapter 14. Dog Days: Ulrich Seidl's Fin-de-Siecle Vision
Justin Vicari
Chapter 15. Import and Export: Ulrich Seidl's Indiscreet Anthropology of
Migration
Martin Brady and Helen Hughes
PART IV: RE-VISIONS, SHIFTING CENTERS, CROSSING BORDERS
Chapter 16. Crossing Borders in Austrian Cinema at the Turn of the Century:
Flicker, Allahyari, Albert
Nikhil Sathe
Chapter 17. The Resentment of One's Fellow Citizens Intensified into a
Strong Sense of Community: Psychology and Misanthropy in Total Therapy, The
Hold-up, and Caché
Andreas Böhn
Chapter 18. Trapped Bodies, Roaming Fantasies: Mobilizing the Constructions
of Place and Identity in Florian Flicker's Suzie Washington
Gundolf Graml
Chapter 19. A Cinephilic Avant-Garde: The Films of Peter Tscherkassky,
Martin Arnold, and Gustav Deutsch
Erika Balsom
PART V: STEFAN RUZOWITZKY AND NEO-CLASSIC TRENDS
Chapter 20. Screening Nazisms and Reclaiming the Horror Genre: Stefan
Ruzowitzky's Anatomy Films
Alexandra Ludewig
Chapter 21. Beyond Borders and Across Genre Boundaries: Critical Heimat in
Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Inheritors
Rachel Palfreyman
Chapter 22. A Genuine Dilemma: Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters as Moral
Experiment
Raymond Burt
Chapter 23. National Box Office Hits - International "Arthouse"? The New
Austrokomödie
Regina Standún
PART VI: AUSTRIA AND BEYOND AS TERRA INCOGNITA: GLAWOGGER, SAUPER,
SPIELMANN
Chapter 24. Austria Plays Itself and Sees Da Him: Notes on the Image of
Austria in the Films of Michael Glawogger
Christoph Huber
Chapter 25. Configurations of the Authentic in Hubert Sauper'sDarwin's
Nightmare
Arno Russegger
Chapter 26. The Lady in the Lake: Austria's Images in Götz Spielmann's
Antares
Sara Hall
Chapter 27. "Children of Optimism": An Interview with Götz Spielmann on
Revanche and New Austrian Film
Catherine Wheatley
Selected Filmography
Contributors
Index