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| Cabinet of Doctor Caligari |
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Definition
WHO:
- Director: Janowitz and Meier
- Konrad Veidt (Caesar)
- Werner Krauss (Caligari)
WHAT:
- Expressionist film
- Silent film
- Escapist from WWI
- Questions authority
- Subjective reality
WHERE:
- Weimar Germany
WHEN:
- Made in 1920
WHY:
- Super influential
- Great example of expressionism
- Silent film |
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WHO:
- Director: Fritz Lang
- Peter Lorre (Hans Beckert)
WHAT:
- Lang's first sound film
- Questions rule of law and authority
- Anti-urban
- Critiqued women leaving the home
- Total mobilization
- Originally called "Murderers Among Us"
WHERE:
- In the city of Berlin
WHEN:
- Made in 1931
WHY:
- Role that society plays on media, media on society
- Shows how politicized film was at the time |
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Definition
WHO:
- Heini Volker
- Heinrich Georg (Drunken Commie Dad)
WHAT:
- Blatant propaganda
- Pro-Nazi
- Shows Commies as low, poor, dirty people with bad families who love booze
WHERE:
- Urban vs. Rural
WHEN:
- June 1933
WHY:
- Example of Hitler-style propaganda
- Shows Nazi ideals and Nazi aesthetics |
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Definition
WHO:
- Zara Leander (Main Lady)
- Ferdinand Marian (Don Pedro)
- UFA studio controlled by Nazis
WHAT:
- "Grass is always greener"
- Escapist
- Loyalty to homeland
WHERE:
- Puerto Rico/Switzerland
WHEN:
- Made in 1937
WHY:
- Goebbels-style propaganda
- Showed the orchestra principle |
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Definition
WHO:
- Director: Veit Harlan
- Kristina Soderbaum: Maria
- Heinrich Georg: Nettlebeck
WHAT:
- Total Mobilization, Total War
- Huge production costs
- Took soldiers off of the Eastern front to be extras
- See the raising of the Jewish Question (subtly)
- Nettlebeck is Hitler-esque
WHERE:
- Set in Kohlberg
WHEN:
- Set in 1807
- Made in 1942
- Nazi war effort was failing
WHY:
- Total War
- Middle of the Road propaganda
- Incite nationalism in German people |
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Definition
WHO:
- (It was a documentary, not a film)
WHAT:
- Full blown Jewish Question
- Jews ravage the countryside!
- Jews steal things!
- Jews love dirty houses!
- Jews love slitting cows' throats!
- Jews are rats without a homeland!
WHERE:
- Polish Ghettos
WHEN:
- 1940
WHY:
- Necessary to have entertainment mixed in with propaganda |
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Definition
WHO:
- Hildegard Knef: Susanne Wallner
WHAT:
- Rubble Film
- Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung
- Blame the elites
WHERE:
- East Germany
- Berlin
WHEN:
- 1946
WHY:
- Example of rubble film
- Victim's Discourse
- War's effect on society and the individuals
- Victimized German citizens, not Jews |
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Definition
WHO:
- Directed by Fassbinder
WHAT:
- Challenged gender roles
- Problems with conservative consensus culture
WHERE:
- Berlin (mainly)
WHEN:
- 1979
- Set in the mid-1950s
WHY:
- New German Cinema
- Internationalization of cinema
- Critique of the past |
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Definition
WHO:
- No one important
WHAT:
- Analysis of the Stasi
- Breadth of Stasi organization
- Banality of Evil?
- Won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film (2007)
WHERE:
- East Berlin
WHEN:
- 2006
WHY:
- Better understanding of Stasi
- Power of the state
- Power of being watched
- International German cinema |
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Definition
WHO:
- Director: Wolfgang Becker
- Alex and Christiane Kerner
WHAT:
- Ostalgie
WHERE:
- Berlin, 1989
WHEN:
- 2003
WHY:
- Ostalgie
- Peacefulness of 1989 Revolution and Fall of Eastern Block
- Consumerization of East German |
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Definition
WHO:
- Director: Fatih Akin
WHAT:
- Gastarbeiters
- "Germanness"
- Turks in Germany and Identity
WHERE:
- Berlin
WHEN:
- 2004
WHY:
- German Identity vs. Turkish Identity
- Problems immigrants face
- Individual vs. society |
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Definition
WHO:
- Fassbinder
- Schleyer
- Raspe
- Baader
- Ensilin
WHAT:
- New German Cinema
- Critique of consensus culture
- Analysis of German Autumn of 1977
- Looked at RAF and gov't and the reactions each had to the other
- Montage of scenes
WHERE:
- Germany
WHEN:
- 1977
WHY:
- New German Cinema
- Criticism of Consensus Culture |
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