A Companion to German Cinema

Acknowledgments xii

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction
Terri Ginsberg and Andrea Mensch 1

First Movement: Destabilization 23

1 Have Dialectic, Will Travel: The GDR Indianerfilme as Critique and Radical Imaginary 27
Dennis Broe

2 Coming Out into Socialism: Heiner Carow’s Third Way 55
David Brandon Dennis

3 German Identity, Myth, and Documentary Film 82
Julia Knight

4 Post-Reunification Cinema: Horror, Nostalgia, Redemption 110
Anthony Enns

5 “Capitalism Has No More Natural Enemies”: The Berlin School 134
David Clarke

6 Projecting Heimat: On the Regional and the Urban in Recent Cinema 155
Jennifer Ruth Hosek

7 No Happily Ever After: Disembodying Gender, Destabilizing Nation in Angelina Maccarone’s Unveiled 175
Gayatri Devi

Second Movement: Dislocation 193

8 Views across the Rhine: Border Poetics in Straub–Huillet’s Machorka-Muff (1962) and Lothringen! (1994) 197
Claudia Pummer

9 Contested Spaces: Kamal Aljafari’s Transnational Palestinian Films 218
Peter Limbrick

10 Fatih Akýn’s Homecomings 249
Savas Arslan

11 Lessons in Liberation: Fassbinder’s Whity at the Crossroads of Hollywood Melodrama and Blaxploitation 260
Priscilla Layne

12 Sexploitation Film from West Germany 287
Harald Steinwender and Alexander Zahlten

13 A Documentarist at the Limits of Queer: The Films of Jochen Hick 318
Robert M. Gillett

14 Models of Masculinity in Postwar Germany: The Sissi Films and the West German Wiederbewaffnungsdebatte 341
Nadja Krämer

15 Crossdressing, Remakes, and National Stereotypes: The Germany–Hollywood Connection 379
Silke Arnold-de Simine

Third Movement: Disidentification 405

16 The Aesthetics of Ethnic Cleansing: A Historiographic and Filmic Analysis of Andres Veiel’s Balagan 409
Domenica Vilhotti

17 Margarethe von Trotta’s Rosenstrasse: “Feminist Re-Visions” of a Historical Controversy 429
Sally Winkle

18 The Baader Oedipus Complex 462
Vojin Saša Vukadinovic´

19 Dislocations: Videograms of a Revolution and the Search for Images 483
Frances Guerin

20 Germany Welcomes Back Its Jews: Go for Zucker! and the Women in German Debate (aka Wiggie-leaks: A Polemical Analysis) 507
Terri Ginsberg

21 Screening the German Social Divide: Aelrun Goette’s Die Kinder sind tot 526
David James Prickett

22 A Negative Utopia: Michael Haneke’s Fragmentary Cinema 553
Tara Forrest

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