Overview
- Reflects on how to research the connection between cinema and nation in the 21st century
- Looks at the most important trends and changes the global cinema landscape with a focus on film events and German cinema
- Addresses the issues and opportunities provided by different curatorial and technological developments influencing global cinema production, distribution and reception
Part of the book series: Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues (GGTD)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Films in Global Circuits
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Transnational Audiences and Communities
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German Filmmakers in a Global Environment
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About this book
This volume explores the notion of German cinema as both a national and increasingly transnational entity. It brings together chapters that analyse the international circuits of development and distribution that shape the emerging films as part of a contemporary “German cinema”, the events and spectacles that help frame and re-frame national cinemas and their discoverability, and the well-known filmmakers who sit at the vanguard of the contemporary canon. Thereby, it explores what we understand as German cinema today and the many points where this idea of national cinema can be interrogated, expanded and opened up to new readings.
At the heart of this interrogation is a keen awareness of the technological, social, economic and cultural changes that have an impact on global cinemas more broadly: new distribution channels such as streaming platforms and online film festivals, and audience engagement that transcends national borders as well as the cinema space. International film production and financing further heightens the transnational aspects of cinema, a quality that is often neglected in marketing and branding of the filmic product. With particular focus on film festivals, this volume explores the tensions between the national and transnational in film, but also in the events that sit at the heart of global cinema culture. It includes contributions from filmmakers, cultural managers and other professionals in the field of film and cinema, as well as scholarly contributions from academics researching popular culture, film, and events in relation to Germany.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kirsten Stevens, PhD, is a film writer, lecturer and researcher working in the areas of film festivals, reception studies and film exhibition practice. She completed her PhD in film and screen studies at Monash University, and has taught extensively in film and screen studies, media and communications, cultural studies, and arts and cultural management. Kirsten is currently a lecturer in arts and cultural management at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is Deputy Director of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival, Vice President of the Senses of Cinema journal, and a member of the Screen Studies Association of Aotearoa New Zealand executive. Her current research interests include: the impact of digitisation and connected viewing practices on television and film festival audiences; women's filmmaking and its circulation within alternative distribution networks; and histories of film and film culture in Australia.
Benjamin Nickl, PhD, is a cultural studies researcher with an interest in popular culture studies in film, television, literature, performative and mass media. He is also interested in educational studies and researches in the areas of transnational cultures, German, American, and Australian transnationalisms and global transcultural dialogue, as well as transnational educational practices in secondary and tertiary education. Currently, he works on transnational German visual culture at the intersection of cinema and online media.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational German Cinema
Book Subtitle: Encountering Germany Through Film and Events
Editors: Irina Herrschner, Kirsten Stevens, Benjamin Nickl
Series Title: Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72917-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72916-5Published: 01 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72919-6Published: 02 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72917-2Published: 31 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2522-5324
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5332
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 201
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media Sociology, Global Cinema and TV, Cultural Studies, Screen Studies, Media and Communication