Moving frames photographs in German cinema

As the building blocks of moving pictures, photographs have played an integral role in cinema since the dawn of the medium—a relationship that has grown more complexly connected even as the underlying technologies continue to evolve. Moving Frames explores the use of photographs in German films from...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Collenberg-Gonzalez, Carrie (Editor), Sheehan, Martin P. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn 2022, ©2022
Series:Film Europa
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Photographs as rupture and affect in German film / Carrie Collenberg-González and Martin P. Sheehan
  • Layers of exposure : the photographic approach in Gerhart Lamprecht's Zille film, Slums of Berlin (1925) / Jason Doerre
  • Objecting objects : photographs and subjectivity in The blue angel (1930) / Martin P. Sheehan
  • Before- and afterlives : on the stillness of photographs at the outset of Adenauer cinema / John Davidson
  • Filming after Walker Evans : Wim Wenders' "American pictures" in Kings of the road (1976) / Stefanie Harris
  • The transgression of overpainting : Jürgen Böttcher's radical experiments with intermediality in Transformations (1981) / Matthew Bauman
  • The promise of agency : photographs and value in Tattoo (2002) / Cynthia Porter
  • Curating the image : visual intertextuality in The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) / Reinhard Zachau
  • Re-presenting German heritage films : photographic memory in Aimee & Jaguar (1999), Good bye Lenin! (2003), and Almanya-Welcome to Germany (2011) / Carrie Collenberg-Gonzalez
  • Imaging the "good life" : destabilizing subjecthood and conceptions of the normative family in Ghosts (2005) / Simone Pfleger
  • Violence, death, and photographs : capturing the (un)dead in Rammbock (2010) / Melissa Etzler
  • Possible archives : encountering a surveillance photo in Karl Marx City (2016) / Anke Pinkert
  • Afterword. Toward a camera ludica : agency and photography in Videogame ecologies / Curtis L. Maughan.