TY - GEN T1 - The counter-cinema of the Berlin School T2 - Screen cultures. A1 - Abel, Marco LA - English PP - Rochester, New York PB - Camden House YR - 2013 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn861536129 AB - The group of contemporary German directors collectively known as the "Berlin School" constitutes the most significant filmmaking movement to come out of Germany since the New German Cinema of the 1970s, not least because its films mark the emergence of a new film language in German cinema. The filmmakers belonging to the Berlin School, including Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, Angela Schanelec, Christoph Hochhäusler, Ulrich Köhler, Benjamin Heisenberg, Maren Ade, and Valeska Grisebach, are reminiscent in their auteurism of the directors of the New German Autorenkino and of French cinéma des auteurs of the 1960s. This volume is the first book-length study in any language of the Berlin School. Its central thesis -- that the movement should be regarded as a "counter-cinema"--Is built around the unusual style of realism employed in the films of this movement, a realism that presents audiences with images of a Germany that does not yet exist. Abel concludes that it is precisely how these films' images and sounds work that renders them political. They are political not because they are message-driven films but because they are made politically, thus performing a "redistribution of the sensible"--a direct artistic intervention in the way politics partitions ways of doing and making, saying and seeing. OP - 348 CN - PN1993.5.G3 A59 2013eb SN - 9781571138736 SN - 1571138730 SN - 1571134387 SN - 9781571134387 SN - 9781571139412 SN - 1571139419 KW - Motion pictures : Germany : History : 21st century. KW - Cinéma : Allemagne : Histoire : 21e siècle. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Reference. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : History & Criticism. KW - Motion pictures KW - Germany KW - 2000-2099 KW - History ER -