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Head-On (Gegen die Wand)
Daniela Berghahn
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Description for Head-On (Gegen die Wand)
Paperback. The award-winning love story Head-On (2004) has been embroiled in Turkish-German identity politics since its release. Opening up fresh lines of enquiry, Daniela Berghahn's detailed and entertaining account of the film's production history and reception instead situates the film in the rich context of global art cinema and transnational melodrama. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages, 59 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 192 x 136 x 9. Weight in Grams: 176.
When Head-On (Gegen die Wand, 2004) won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, it was hailed as a turning point for German cinema. Not only was this unconventional love story the first German film in eighteen years to win the prestigious award, but the success of writer-director Fatih Akin was also celebrated as the revival of German auteur cinema. Meanwhile Turkey claimed Akin as its own prodigal son and his film a victory for Turkish cinema.
Daniela Berghahn provides a detailed and entertaining account of the film's artistic inspirations, its production history and the debates that ... Read more
When Head-On (Gegen die Wand, 2004) won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, it was hailed as a turning point for German cinema. Not only was this unconventional love story the first German film in eighteen years to win the prestigious award, but the success of writer-director Fatih Akin was also celebrated as the revival of German auteur cinema. Meanwhile Turkey claimed Akin as its own prodigal son and his film a victory for Turkish cinema.
Daniela Berghahn provides a detailed and entertaining account of the film's artistic inspirations, its production history and the debates that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844576722
SKU
V9781844576722
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About Daniela Berghahn
Daniela Berghahn is Professor of Film Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is the author of Hollywood Behind the Wall: The Cinema of East Germany (2005), Far-Flung Families in Film: The Diasporic Family in Contemporary European Cinema (2013) and co-editor of European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe (2010).
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