A01=Christine Haase
Author_Christine Haase
Category=ATF
Contemporary cinema
Directors
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Film history
German cinema
German Filmmakers
Hollywood
Hollywood cinema
Internationalism
Percy Adlon
Roland Emmerich
Tom Tykwer
Transnational film
Wolfgang Petersen
Product details
- ISBN 9781571132796
- Weight: 458g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2007
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Contemporary connections between German directors and Hollywood and their implications for German, American, and transnational film.
The film histories of Germany and the United States have long been seen as intertwined, but scholarship has focused on émigré works of the 1930s and 1940s, on links between Weimar film and American film noir, and on the conflictedrelationship between directors of the New German Cinema and Hollywood. Recently, German film studies has begun reexamining the interconnection of the two film cultures and focusing on the internationalism of German cinema, but little research has been done on contemporary German directors' involvement in American cinema, a gap in scholarship that this book fills. The study offers ways of understanding current German cinematic engagement with America and different directorial responses to the hegemonic pressures of Hollywood. It delineates the historical trajectory of German-American film relations in the 20th century, then analyzes the careers and works of four German-born directors who have significant ties with American cinema: Wolfgang Petersen, Roland Emmerich, Percy Adlon, and Tom Tykwer. A series of close readings of their productions isolates the cinematic practices and strategies with which these filmmakers negotiate the different national cultural and cinematic paradigms they traverse. The book analyzes constructions of national cultural identity, probes the boundaries of national cinemas, and expands our understanding ofemerging hybrid film cultures. It is a contribution to German film studies and to the emerging field of transnational film studies.
Christine Haase is Associate Professor of German at the University of Georgia.
Assistant professor of German, University of Georgia.
