A Companion to German CinemaA Companion to German Cinema regards the shifting terrain of German filmmaking and film studies against their larger social contexts with twenty-two newly commissioned essays by well-established and younger scholars in the field. While several of these focus on classic topics such as Weimar cinema, Fifties cinema, New German Cinema and its legacy, and Holocaust film, the collection is distinguished by its focus on new developments and the innovative light they may shed on earlier practices.A Companion to German Cinema includes essays on Berlin Film, Neue Heimat Film, New Comedy, post-Wall documentaries, the post-Wende RAF genre, and Rabenmutter imagery, as well as on the persistently overlooked and under-theorized Indianerfilme, post-AIDS documentaries, sexploitation films, and new multicultural and transnational films produced in Germany under the auspices of the European Union. Organized into three "movements" representing the significance of these developments for their aesthetic theorization, A Companion to German Cinema challenges its readers to address critical gaps in the field with the aim of opening it further onto new terrains of intellectual engagement.

Notes on Editors and Contributors viiAcknowledgments xiiAbbreviations xiiiIntroduction 1Terri Ginsberg and Andrea MenschFirst Movement: Destabilization 231 Have Dialectic, Will Travel: The GDR Indianerfilme as Critique and Radical Imaginary 27Dennis Broe2 Coming Out into Socialism: Heiner Carow's Third Way 55David Brandon Dennis3 German Identity, Myth, and Documentary Film 82Julia Knight4 Post-Reunification Cinema: Horror, Nostalgia, Redemption 110Anthony Enns5 "Capitalism Has No More Natural Enemies": The Berlin School 134David Clarke6 Projecting Heimat: On the Regional and the Urban in Recent Cinema 155Jennifer Ruth Hosek7 No Happily Ever After: Disembodying Gender, Destabilizing Nation in Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled 175Gayatri DeviSecond Movement: Dislocation 1938 Views across the Rhine: Border Poetics in Straub-Huillet's Machorka-Muff (1962) and Lothringen! (1994) 197Claudia Pummer9 Contested Spaces: Kamal Aljafari's Transnational Palestinian Films 218Peter Limbrick10 Fatih Akin's Homecomings 249Savas Arslan11 Lessons in Liberation: Fassbinder's Whity at the Crossroads of Hollywood Melodrama and Blaxploitation 260Priscilla Layne12 Sexploitation Film from West Germany 287Harald Steinwender and Alexander Zahlten13 A Documentarist at the Limits of Queer: The Films of Jochen Hick 318Robert M. Gillett14 Models of Masculinity in Postwar Germany: The Sissi Films and the West German Wiederbewaffnungsdebatte 341Nadja Krämer15 Crossdressing, Remakes, and National Stereotypes: The Germany-Hollywood Connection 379Silke Arnold-de SimineThird Movement: Disidentification 40516 The Aesthetics of Ethnic Cleansing: A Historiographic and Filmic Analysis of Andres Veiel's Balagan 409Domenica Vilhotti17 Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse: "Feminist Re-Visions" of a Historical Controversy 429Sally Winkle18 The Baader Oedipus Complex 462Vojin Sasa Vukadinovic19 Dislocations: Videograms of a Revolution and the Search for Images 483Frances Guerin20 Germany Welcomes Back Its Jews: Go for Zucker! and the Women in German Debate (aka Wiggie-leaks: A Polemical Analysis) 507Terri Ginsberg21 Screening the German Social Divide: Aelrun Goette's Die Kinder sind tot 526David James Prickett22 A Negative Utopia: Michael Haneke's Fragmentary Cinema 553Tara ForrestIndex 573