German Ways of War : The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films
German Ways of War : The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films
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Author(s): Fisher, Jaimey
ISBN No.: 9781978829176
Pages: 250
Year: 202208
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 52.37
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"This original study of exemplary German features probes essential dimensions of war cinema that have received little scholarly attention, its geopolitical determinations, spatial imaginaries, and affective geographies. A major contribution to film history and media studies, German Ways of War o ffers a comprehensive analysis of the numerous countenances and different functions this generic possibility has assumed in exemplary German productions from World War I to the postmillennial era." -- Eric Rentschler, author of The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present "Fills an important gap in cinema scholarship by examining German war films from the beginning of World War I through to the early 2000s. Fisher''s book is beneficial for film scholars and teachers, as it is dense with useful information about, and sophisticated close readings of, the selected German war films he considers. Over time, the impact of Jaimey Fisher''s impressive monograph will extend beyond German Studies to Cinema and Media Studies more generally, as well as to other crucial interdisciplinary fields such as Peace and Human Rights Studies that examine representations of war in art and the critical and popular responses to them."-- Monatshefte " German Ways of War is an engaging text that charts out a captivating genre history that extends far beyond its immediate scope of German War films. The book is written as a fascinating account to how warfare changed in the twentieth century. The project is meticulously researched and provides invaluable political, historical, and legal documentation regarding war and peace policies in Germany.


" -- Nora M. Alter, author of Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema 1967-2000 pact of Jaimey Fisher''s impressive monograph will extend beyond German Studies to Cinema and Media Studies more generally, as well as to other crucial interdisciplinary fields such as Peace and Human Rights Studies that examine representations of war in art and the critical and popular responses to them."-- Monatshefte " German Ways of War is an engaging text that charts out a captivating genre history that extends far beyond its immediate scope of German War films. The book is written as a fascinating account to how warfare changed in the twentieth century. The project is meticulously researched and provides invaluable political, historical, and legal documentation regarding war and peace policies in Germany." -- Nora M. Alter, author of Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema 1967-2000 pact of Jaimey Fisher''s impressive monograph will extend beyond German Studies to Cinema and Media Studies more generally, as well as to other crucial interdisciplinary fields such as Peace and Human Rights Studies that examine representations of war in art and the critical and popular responses to them."-- Monatshefte " German Ways of War is an engaging text that charts out a captivating genre history that extends far beyond its immediate scope of German War films.


The book is written as a fascinating account to how warfare changed in the twentieth century. The project is meticulously researched and provides invaluable political, historical, and legal documentation regarding war and peace policies in Germany." -- Nora M. Alter, author of Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema 1967-2000 pact of Jaimey Fisher''s impressive monograph will extend beyond German Studies to Cinema and Media Studies more generally, as well as to other crucial interdisciplinary fields such as Peace and Human Rights Studies that examine representations of war in art and the critical and popular responses to them."-- Monatshefte " German Ways of War is an engaging text that charts out a captivating genre history that extends far beyond its immediate scope of German War films. The book is written as a fascinating account to how warfare changed in the twentieth century. The project is meticulously researched and provides invaluable political, historical, and legal documentation regarding war and peace policies in Germany." -- Nora M.


Alter, author of Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema 1967-2000 ally, as well as to other crucial interdisciplinary fields such as Peace and Human Rights Studies that examine representations of war in art and the critical and popular responses to them."-- Monatshefte " German Ways of War is an engaging text that charts out a captivating genre history that extends far beyond its immediate scope of German War films. The book is written as a fascinating account to how warfare changed in the twentieth century. The project is meticulously researched and provides invaluable political, historical, and legal documentation regarding war and peace policies in Germany." -- Nora M. Alter, author of Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema 1967-2000.


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