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9780252075384 Academic Inspection Copy

German Film after Germany

Toward a Transnational Aesthetic
  • ISBN-13: 9780252075384
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Randall Halle
  • Price: AUD $60.99
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  • Local release date: 14/08/2008
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Film, TV & radio [AP]
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What is the work of film in the age of transnational production? Randall Halle finds an answer in the film industry of Germany, one of Europe's largest film markets. In the 1990s Germany shifted from a state-subsidized mode of film production to one dominated by private interest. At the same time, the European Union began drawing together Europe's national markets, forming a homogenous, yet synergistic whole. This book studies these changes broadly, but also focuses on the transformations in their particular national context. Halle concludes that we witness currently the emergence of a new transnational aesthetic, a fundamental shift in cultural production with ramifications for communal identifications, state cohesion, and national economies.
 
"This ambitious book offers a fresh, engaging perspective on distinctive transnational media developments in Western Europe over the last twenty years. Halle recounts in detail how recent economic, political, and linguistic trends have substantially altered the practices of cinema production, distribution, and consumption. His analysis of the multifaceted globalized media emerging in Germany should interest scholars in media studies, political science, sociology, and cultural history, as well as German studies."--Ramona Curry, author of Too Much of a Good Thing: Mae West As Cultural Icon
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