Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School
Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School The contemporary German directors collectively known as the "Berlin School" constitute the most significant filmmaking movement to come out of Germany since the…
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Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School
The contemporary German directors collectively known as the "Berlin School" constitute the most significant filmmaking movement to come out of Germany since the New German Cinema of the 1970s, not least because their films mark the emergence of a new film language. This is the first book-length study of the Berlin School in any language. The Berlin School filmmakers, including Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, Angela Schanelec, Christoph Hochhausler, Ulrich Kohler, Benjamin Heisenberg, Maren Ade, and Valeska Grisebach, are reminiscent of the directors of the New German Autorenkino and of French cinema des auteurs of the 1960s.
Abel concludes that it is precisely how these Its central thesis - that the movement should be regarded as a "counter-cinema" - is built around the unusual style of realism employed in its films, a realism that presents images of a Germany that does not yet exist.
The Mysteries of Cinema
The Cinema of Ettore Scola
Under the Counter
School of the Seers
The First Days of Berlin