Loading…

Berlin replayed : cinema and urban nostalgia in the postwall era /

Scarred by the Second World War, divided during the Cold War, and turned into a massive construction site in the early postwall years, Berlin has dramatically reinvented itself in the new millennium. Film has served a neglected but important function in this transformation. In 'Berlin Replayed,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wagner, Brigitta B., 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:Scarred by the Second World War, divided during the Cold War, and turned into a massive construction site in the early postwall years, Berlin has dramatically reinvented itself in the new millennium. Film has served a neglected but important function in this transformation. In 'Berlin Replayed, ' Brigitta B. Wagner shows how old and new films set in Berlin created a collective urban nostalgia for the city's best, most inclusive, and most conciliatory pasts in the face of its renewed purpose as the all-German capital.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 299 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781452953595
1452953597
9781452945248
1452945241