In this Book
- Christian Petzold
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Contemporary Film Directors
summary
In eleven feature films across two decades, Christian Petzold has established himself as the most critically celebrated director in contemporary Germany. The best-known and most influential member of the Berlin School, Petzold's career reflects the trajectory of German film from 1970s New German Cinema to more popular fare in the 1990s and back again to critically engaged and politically committed filmmaking.
In the first book-length study on Petzold in English, Jaimey Fisher frames Petzold's cinema at the intersection of international art cinema and sophisticated genre cinema. This approach places his work in the context of global cinema and invites comparisons to the work of directors like Pedro Almodovar and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who repeatedly deploy and reconfigure genre cinema to their own ends. These generic aspects constitute a cosmopolitan gesture in Petzold's work as he interprets and elaborates on cult genre films and popular genres, including horror, film noir, and melodrama. Fisher explores these popular genres while injecting them with themes like terrorism, globalization, and immigration, central issues for European art cinema. The volume also includes an extended original interview with the director about his work.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Petzold’s Ghostly Archeology of Genre
- pp. 11-149
- Interview with Christian Petzold
- pp. 150-171
- Filmography
- pp. 172-179
- Bibliography
- pp. 180-191
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252095238
Related ISBN(s)
9780252037986, 9780252079504
MARC Record
OCLC
862809223
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2013-11-28
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013