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The Cosmopolitan Screen
Stephan K Schindler
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Description for The Cosmopolitan Screen
Paperback. Investigates the extent to which German filmmakers have engaged with the ever more fluid trade of images, meanings, and identities in a globalizing world. This volume traces German cinema's negotiation of the global as a multilayered story in which hopes and fears about the prospect of a more cosmopolitan culture often go hand in hand. Editor(s): Schindler, Stephan K.; Koepnick, Lutz. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 352 pages, 35 b&w images. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; APFA; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
The Cosmopolitan Screen investigates the extent to which German filmmakers throughout the last sixty years have engaged with the ever more fluid trade of images, meanings, and identities in a globalizing world. The volume traces German cinema's negotiation of the global as a multilayered story in which hopes and fears about the prospect of a more cosmopolitan culture often go hand in hand. Featuring original work from some of the foremost scholars in German film studies from either side of the Atlantic, ""The Cosmopolitan Screen"" makes a persuasive case for rethinking the place of the ""national"" within an increasingly cosmopolitan ... Read more
The Cosmopolitan Screen investigates the extent to which German filmmakers throughout the last sixty years have engaged with the ever more fluid trade of images, meanings, and identities in a globalizing world. The volume traces German cinema's negotiation of the global as a multilayered story in which hopes and fears about the prospect of a more cosmopolitan culture often go hand in hand. Featuring original work from some of the foremost scholars in German film studies from either side of the Atlantic, ""The Cosmopolitan Screen"" makes a persuasive case for rethinking the place of the ""national"" within an increasingly cosmopolitan ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472069668
SKU
V9780472069668
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About Stephan K Schindler
Stephan K. Schindler is Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and Film Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Lutz Koepnick is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
Reviews for The Cosmopolitan Screen
Schindler and Koepnick's formulation of the 'cosmopolitan gaze' as a vehicle for the constitution of a post-national German film studies is both cogent and charged with fruitful possibilities for future work in the field. The admirable mix of lucidity and critical sophistication which this array of scholars bring to their subject will make The Cosmopolitan Screen essential reading for students, ... Read more