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Christian Petzold /
In eleven feature films across two decades, Christian Petzold has established himself as perhaps the most critically celebrated director in contemporary Germany. The best-known and most influential member of the Berlin School, Petzold's career reflects the trajectory of German film from 1970s N...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana [Illinois] :
University of Illinois Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Contemporary film directors.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In eleven feature films across two decades, Christian Petzold has established himself as perhaps the most critically celebrated director in contemporary Germany. The best-known and most influential member of the Berlin School, Petzold's career reflects the trajectory of German film from 1970s New German Cinema to more popular fare in the 1990s - and back again to critically engaged and politically committed filmmaking. In this book, the author frames Petzold's cinema at the intersection of international art cinema and sophisticated genre cinema. This approach places his work in the context of global cinema and invites comparisons to the work of directors like Pedro Almodovar and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who repeatedly deploy and reconfigure genre cinema to their own ends. These generic aspects constitute a cosmopolitan gesture in Petzold's work as he interprets and elaborates on cult genre films and popular genres, including horror, film noir, and melodrama. The artist explores these popular genres while injecting them with themes like terrorism, globalization, and immigration, central issues for European art cinema. This volume also includes an extended original interview with the director about his work. -- Adapted from Amazon.com description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780252095238 0252095235 |