Seth Peabody

Film History for the Anthropocene (eBook, ePUB)

The Ecological Archive of German Cinema

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From its beginnings, some of German film's most prominent genres and directors have focused on the natural world and its transformations by humans. Heimat films, "city symphonies," mountain films, and rubble films all blend the boundary between landscape documentary and fiction film. Yet German film studies has been slow to adopt an environmental focus, concentrating (understandably) on its subject matter's political implications. This book reveals critical connections between German film, sociopolitical context, and environment, showing it to have been a creative catalyst for the social and ecological transformation of the Anthropocene.

The book first considers the interplay between German film and environmental history in films and discourses of Heimat. Weimar-era films such as E. A. Dupont's Die Geierwally (1921), Carl Ludwig Achaz-Duisberg's Sprengbagger 1010 (1929), and Phil Jützi's Hunger in Waldenburg (1929) document and create a forum for discussing environmental change. The book then looks at film as a visual archive of and catalyst for infrastructure development, focusing on Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927), the mountain films of Arnold Fanck, and the Berlin films Stadt der Millionen (Adolf Trotz, 1925), Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Walter Ruttmann, 1927), and Menschen am Sonntag (1930). Nazi-era and postwar films are also examined. By exploring German film history alongside environmental history and theory, this book provides a case study of the power of film within processes of environmental transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805431466
• Artikelnr.: 69096107

Autorenporträt

SETH PEABODY is Assistant Professor of German at Carleton College, MN.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction. Filmic Worlds
Creativity
and Materiality
or: Welcome to the Anthropocene? PART I 1. Companions and Combatants (or
Hugs
Fights
and Bites): Curating Multispecies Environments in Die Geierwally 2. From Industrial Heimat to Bavarian Heimatfilm: Sprengbagger 1010
Hunger in Waldenburg
and the Consolidation of a Genre PART II 3. Infrastructure in the Anthropo(s)cene: Fritz Lang's Metropolis as Ecological Archive 4. Image
Environment
Infrastructure: The Social Ecologies of the Bergfilm 5. Greenwashing in Black and White: Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt
Die Stadt der Millionen
Menschen am Sonntag Epilogue. Welcome Back: Reflexive Environments in Recent German Cinema Works Cited Index