Book Details

TRIANGULATED VISIONS : WOMEN IN RECENT GERMAN CINEMA (SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory)

By O^Sickey, Ingeborg Majer (Editor), ZADOW, INGEBORG VON (Editor)

Price : ~~£17.25~~  £13.80
ISBN : 0-7914-3718-3
Page : 291
Year of Publication : 1998    Edition : 1
Publisher : SUNY PRESS
Subject : WOMAN STUDIES

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Description :

"This broad-ranging collection, the first of its kind, gathers essays on the representation of women in recent German cinema, as well as recent interviews with German women filmmakers. This book illuminates some of the challenges feminist German filmmakers face and offers original insights into their filmmaking practices. It considers the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality as these are cinematically represented, and discusses narrative, documentary, ""art,"" and essay films from both West and East Germany before and after unification. Several essays treat films by well-known filmmakers, including R.W. Fassbinder, Jutta Bruckner, Ulrike Ottinger, Helke Sander, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Monika Treut, and Wim Wenders in ways that challenge the limits of major critical approaches in feminist film criticism today. Importantly, Triangulated Visions also offers suggestive and original analyses of works by filmmakers who, until now, have not received much scholarly treatment. ""This is a book which really needs to be read, on the work of some of the most important artists working in cinema today."" -- Gwendolyn Foster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ""The theories, films, and directors discussed here have been too seldom treated but are very important to film studies, German studies, and cultural studies in general. This book does a valuable service in redressing this neglect."" -- Barton Byg, University of Massachusetts-Amherst ""The topic of women in German cinema is undeniably significant in itself, and also of interest as an aspect of cinema studies and German literary/cultural studies. The inclusion of material on filmmaking in the former GDR and on documentary, along with more standard fictional films, as well as the filmmaker interviews and essays discussing a number of recent films, all make this volume particularly valuable."" -- Ramona Curry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"

Ingeborg Majer O^Sickey is Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Ingeborg von Zadow is a playwright and lives in Heidelberg, Germany. Among her works currently performed on stage are Pompinien and Ich und du.

Content :

" Acknowledgments Introduction Ingeborg Majer O’Sickey Part I. Genre and Other Border Crossings 1. Triangulating Performances: Looking After Genre, After Feature Nora M. Alter 2. Fassbinder, Women, and Melodrama: Critical Interrogations Douglas Kellner 3. Behind the Curtains of a State-Owned Film Industry: Women-Filmakers at the DEFA Margrit Frolich 4. The Queer and Unqueer Spaces of Monika Treut’s Films Marcia Klotz Part II. Triangulations of Ethnicity, Gender, and Class 5. ""It Takes Three to Tango"" or Romanace Revisited: Jutta Bruckner’s One Glance and Love Breaks Out Barbara Kosta 6. Interview with Jutta Bruckner: Feminist Filmmaking in Germany Today Ingeborg von Zadow 7. Observing Rituals: Ulrike Ottinger’s Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia Julia Knight 8. Community and Its Contents: Race and Film History in Percy Adlon’s Bagdad Cafe David J. Levin 9. Interview with Seyhan Derin: ben annemin kiziyim (I Am My Mother’s Daughter) Henriette Lowisch Part III. Images of Power and Pleasure 10. Narcissism: The Impossible Love Kaja Silverman 11. Wanda’s Whip: Recasting Masochism’s Fantasy—Monika Treut’s Seduction: The Cruel Woman Barbara Mennel 12. Why Drag the Diva Into It? Werner Schroeter’s Gay Representation of Femininity Ulrike Sieglohr 13. Interview with Doris Dorrie: Filmmaker, Writer, Teacher Klaus Phillips Part IV. Images of Women as Social Ciphers 14. Commodified Body: Helga Redemeister’s Mit starrem Blick aufs Geld (Blank Stares and Hard Cash) Magda Mueller 15. Interview: Women, Film, and Writing in the GDR: Helga Schubert and the DEFA Ute Lischke-McNab 16. Models or Misfits? The Role of Screen Heroines in GDR Cinema Andrea Rinke 17. Wenders’ Genders: From the End of the Wall to the End of the World Scott Spector Part V. Recovering (from) History: Memory and Film 18. ""The Robber Bridegroom"" in Helma Sanders-Brahms’s Deutschland, bleiche Mutter: Erzahltes Marchen und erlebtes Greuelmarchen Rosmarie Thee Morewedge 19. Fairy Tales and Reflexivity in Marianne Rosenbaum’s Peppermint Peace Susan E. Linville 20. Interview with Helke Sander: Reception of Liberators Take Liberties: I would have hoped for a different discussion... Sabine Smith 21. Helke Sander’s Liberators Take Liberties and the Politics of History Marie-Luise Gattens Appendix A New Home for the EIFF-European Institute for Women and Film Ute Lischke-McNab talks with Jutta Bruckner Contributors Subject Index Author Index"