Celluloid Revolt (EPDF) von Christina Gerhardt

Provides new insights into German-language cinema around 1968 and its relationship to the period's epoch-making cultural and political happenings.

Introduction: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968 - Christina Gerhardt and Marco Abel
PART I. ESSAYS
Peter Zadek's FilmIch bin ein Elefant, Madame (1969): Discussing "1968" by Means of "1968 Thinking" - Michael Dobstadt
"Break the Power of the Manipulators": Film and the West German 1968 - Timothy Scott Brown
Ideological Rupture in the dffb: An Analysis of Hans-Rüdiger Minow'sBerlin, 2. Juni - Priscilla Layne
Helke Sander's dffb Films and West Germany's Feminist Movement - Christina Gerhardt
Film Feminisms in West German Cinema: A Public Sphere for Feminist Politics - Madeleine Bernstorff
A Laboratory for Political Film: The Formative Years of the German Film and Television Academy and Participatory Filmmaking from Workerism to Feminism - Fabian Tietke
West Germany's "Workers' Films": A Cinema in the Service of Television? - Thomas Elsaesser
Guns, Girls, and Gynecologists: West German Exploitation Cinema and the St. Pauli Film Wave in the Late 1960s - Lisa Haegele
Mediation, Expansion, Event: Reframing the Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative - Andrew Stefan Weiner
Prague Displaced: Political Tourism in the East German BlockbusterHeißer Sommer - Ian Fleishman
Animating the Socialist Personality: DEFA Fairy TaleTrickfilme in the Shadow of 1968 - Sean Eedy
Allegories of Resistance: The Legacy of 1968 in GDR Visual Cultures - Patricia Anne Simpson
"You Say You Want a Revolution": East German Film at the Crossroads between the Cinemas - Evelyn Preuss
Cruel Optimism, Post-68 Nostalgia and the Limits of Political Activism in Helma Sanders-Brahms'sUnter dem Pflaster ist der Strand (1975) - Ervin Malakaj
Revolting Formats: Hellmuth Costard'sDer kleine Godard An das Kuratorium: Junger Deutscher Film - Kalani Michell
PART II. IN CONVERSATION: INTERVIEWS WITH FILMMAKERS
An Interview with Harun Farocki: "Holger Thought Aesthetics and Politics Together" - Tilman Baumgärtel
An Interview with Birgit Hein: "Art communicates knowledge that cannot be expressed in any other information system" - Randall Halle
An Interview with Klaus Lemke: "Being Smart Does Not Make Good Films" - Marco Abel
Notes on Contributors