Author Archive for: ‘Thomas Elsaesser’
That was the Wild East: Film Culture, Unification and the “New” Germany
Leonie Naughton, That was the Wild East: Film Culture, Unification and the “New” Germany. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002. ISBN: 0 4720888 2 267 pp US$29.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of Michigan Press) It has become quiet around cinema in Germany. Long gone are the days of the New German Cinema: Fassbinder has been dead …
Read More“One train may be hiding another”: private history, memory and national identity.
Uploaded 16 April 1999 | As the centenary of the cinema has come and gone, and the Internet arrived on the scene, it is appropriate to ask what has been the impact of the visual and electronic media this past century? What kind of balance sheet of gain and loss can we draw? Of all the many pro’s and …
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