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Berlin Replayed: Cinema and Urban Nostalgia in the Postwall Era
Brigitta B. Wagner
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Description for Berlin Replayed: Cinema and Urban Nostalgia in the Postwall Era
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 255 x 21. Weight in Grams: 568.
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. Exploring films such as Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire, ... Read more
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. Exploring films such as Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
568g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816691746
SKU
V9780816691746
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About Brigitta B. Wagner
Brigitta B. Wagner is a film historian, curator, and filmmaker. She is a member of the Berlin cinema collective WOLF Kino and the editor of DEFA after East Germany.
Reviews for Berlin Replayed: Cinema and Urban Nostalgia in the Postwall Era
Berlin Replayed is an accomplished study by a well-known film historian, curator, and filmmaker -Film International Clearly and confidently written, Berlin Replayed makes a major contribution to the study of film's intersections with the built environment. Wagner's deftly contextualized and nuanced close readings clearly emerge from her concentrated and lively attention to Berlin's spaces, places, surfaces, and histories. -John ... Read more