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Film and Television Studies
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- ISBN 9781845457006
- Weight: 826g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2011
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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From its scattered beginnings in the 1980s the Austrian new wave has developed into a cinema with broad international recognition. Out of a film culture originally starved of funds have emerged rich and eclectic works by film-makers that are now achieving the international recognition that they deserve: Barbara Albert, Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, and Stefan Ruzowitzky, to give four examples. This comprehensive critical anthology, by leading scholars of Austrian film, is intended to introduce and make accessible this much under-represented phenomenon. Although the book covers the full development of the new cinema it focuses on the period that has brought it international recognition: 1998 to the present. New Austrian Film is the only book currently available on this topic and will be an essential reference work for academics, students and filmmakers, interested in modern Austrian film.
Robert von Dassanowsky is Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. A Carnegie/CASE U.S. Professor of the Year for Colorado, he also works as an independent producer. His books include Phantom Empires: The Novels of Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1995), The Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, 2nd Ed. (as Editor, 1999) and Austrian Cinema: A History (2005), the first English language survey of that nation's film art. Oliver C. Speck is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, School of World Studies. His scholarly writing focuses on narrative strategies and the representation of memory and history in European cinema. His new book Funny Frames: The Filmic Concepts of Michael Haneke (2010), explores how a political thinking manifests itself in the oeuvre of the Austrian director.
