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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"German cinema"”.
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From Margins to the Center Through the Film Lens: Gender and Turkish-German Cinema
This study explores gender roles in Turkish-German Migrant Cinema as created by two directors, Kutlug Ataman and Fatih Akin. Informed by its predecessors, Yilmaz Guney and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who were among the first to explore the marginalization of immigrants in post-War Germany, the …
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Male Subjectivity and Twenty-First Century German Cinema: Gender, National Idenity, and the Problem of Normalization
… and national identity intersect in contemporary German cinema. The fundamental premise behind it is that masculinity, or rather male subjectivity, functions as the nodal point for negotiating national identity. Thus the thesis argues that the contemporary process of German normalization attempts …
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Absences, exclusivities and utopias: Afrikaans film as a cinema of political impotence, 1994 - 2014
… within which to position contemporary Afrikaans cinema as a cinema of political impotence. Afrikaans cinema is first located within the tensions of democratic post-transitional South African society and linked to the identity politics of being identified as 'Afrikaner' or 'Afrikaans speaking'. …
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From Baader to Prada The Representation of Urban Terrorism in German-Language Film
… the Red Army Faction (RAF) experienced by West Germany in the 1970s, and its legacy. At the height of its activity, the RAF violently shook the foundations of postwar German democracy with a string of politically motivated attacks against the Federal Republic which brought the state's democratic …
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“Das ist die Broadway Melodie”: American cultural motifs in German music film 1929 – 1945
This thesis analyses American cultural motifs in German music films in the years 1929 – 1945 and focuses on generic trends that bridged the political caesura of the year 1933 as the end of Germany’s first democracy and the beginning of the dictatorial rule of Adolf Hitler and the Nationalist …
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Memories of Rapid Transformation: Retrospection and Nostalgia in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
… AND NOSTALGIA IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH KOREAN CINEMA MAJOR PROFESSOR: Deborah Tudor, Ph.D. The recent tendency of returning to history in Korean cinema corresponds with the conjuncture of democratization and globalization from 1992, which is an antithesis of the former conjuncture: …
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A new narrative frame: sound design and conceptual storytelling in German film 1930-1933.
… at a time when the democratic principles of German government came under increasing pressure from national as well as global political and economic forces, sound film became rapidly established as an innovative element in German cinema. With the arrival of technology enabling the production …
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“Alles ist nur Wörter”: the critique of German history in Michael Stock’s Prinz in Hölleland
During the 1990s Queer Cinema exploded onto the independent film scene in North America. Most film festivals at the time featured several queer films that broke the boundaries of film-making techniques, conventional narration, and what was considered acceptable by mainstream audiences. By openly …