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About the Author
Larson Powell is Curator's Professor of Film Studies at University of Missouri, Kansas City. Richard Langston is Professor of German at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Reviews
Bringing together contributions from 15 scholars, many of them established historians of German and Austrian film, this collection. . . is among the first to address recent experimental film practices systematically, with attention to both a wide range of filmmakers, genres, and styles, and to the theoretical dimensions of film experiments 'after the avant-garde'. . . The best contributions to this volume move beyond historical documentation to theorize and rethink the notion of the avant-garde, or to place experimental film productions in a larger aesthetic and political context. . .After the Avant-Garde makes a significant contribution to expanding conceptions of contemporary German film. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *
Has uncommon scholarly verve, artistic tension, and suggests how lively film criticism can be. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *
[This] book does a marvelous job of going beyond introductory work about German and Austrian experimental film. While the essays can be read independently, they complement each other in ways that show how the contributors have exchanged their ideas in workshops, seminars, and conferences. Readers looking for information on a single artist or 'school' will not be disappointed, but the strength of this collection lies in its mosaic character. * H-NET *
In this superb collection, Halle and Steingroever provide insights both into the most recent developments in experimental filmmaking in Germany and Austria and into the works of eight fascinating contemporary experimental artists. * CHOICE *
[A] useful starting point for a necessary reevaluation of 1980s German film history, suggesting a more diverse cultural field than that of the 'cinema of consensus' which Eric Rentschler rightly identified as the dominant mode of the mainstream German [film] industry. . . . Particularly impressive in this collection is the coherence of the contributions. . . . [E]xplores the possibilities for the continuing political potential of visual culture at a time when [it] was decreed lost by those critics who saw the New German Cinema giving way to a postmodernism that was being voraciously commodified by the culture industry. -- Paul Cooke * MONATSHEFTE *
Book Information
ISBN 9781571133656
Author Randall Norman Halle
Format Hardback
Page Count 371
Imprint Camden House Inc
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Series Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
Weight(grams) 1g