Transnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism

CLAUDIA BREGER is the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. OLIVIA LANDRY is Associate Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. HESTER BAER is Professor of German Studies and an affiliate in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland. Richard Langston is Professor of German at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. PRISCILLA LAYNE is Professor of German, with an adjunct appointment in African, African American and Diaspora Studies, at the University of North Carolina. FATIMA NAQVI is Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and an Affiliate of the Film and Media Studies Program at Yale University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Claudia Breger and Olivia LandryPart I. Radical Pessimism as a Form of Resistance: Political Drama in the Age of Surplus Humanity and New Fascism1. Transit (2018) and Postfascism - Angelos Koutsourakis2. "Her mit dem schönen Leben": Happiness and Access in Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020) - Priscilla Layne3. Negative Futurability and the Politics of Pessimism in Fatih Akın's Aus dem Nichts (2017) - Gozde NaibogluPart II. Rethinking the Evidence: New Documentary Forms4. Forensic Fallacies - Lutz Koepnick5. The Border as Abjecting Apparatus: Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea (2020) and Purple Sea (2019) - Randall Halle6. The Politics of the Machinic Voice in Gerd Kroske's Documentary SPK Komplex (2018) - Olivia LandryPart III. Reassembling the Archives of Radical Filmmaking7. Marking Time after Utopia - Richard Langston8. Remediations of Cinefeminism in Contemporary German Film - Hester Baer9. A Few Takes toward Reassembling (the Dream of) the People: Julian Radlmaier's Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes (2017) - Claudia BregerPart IV. Intimate Connections: Aesthetics and Politics of a Cinema of Relations10. Choric Configurations and the Collective: Ruth Beckermann's Films - Fatima Naqvi11. Aerial Aesthetics, Queer Intimacy, and the Politics of Repose in the Cinema of Nils Bökamp and Monika Treut - Ervin Malakaj12. Between Observational Detachment and Affective Attachment: The Posthumanist Pedagogy of Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse (2021) - Angelica FennerNotes on the ContributorsIndex

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