Table of Contents
Notes on Editors and Contributors vii
Acknowledgments xii
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1 Terri Ginsberg and Andrea Mensch
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 Akın’s Homecomings 249 Savaş 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 Vukadinović
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
Index 573