Transnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism (EPUB) von Claudia Breger

Posits a new, aesthetically and politically radical, transnational German cinema - "transnational" also in the sense of concerns with migration, the movement of capital across borders, and globalization.

Acknowledgments
IntroductionClaudia Breger and Olivia Landry
Part I. Radical Pessimism as a Form of Resistance: Political Drama in the Age of Surplus Humanity and New Fascism
1. Transit (2018) and PostfascismAngelos Koutsourakis
2. "Her mit dem schönen Leben": Happiness and Access in Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)Priscilla Layne
3. Negative Futurability and the Politics of Pessimism in Fatih Akın's Aus dem Nichts (2017)Gozde Naiboglu
Part II. Rethinking the Evidence: New Documentary Forms
4. Forensic FallaciesLutz Koepnick
5. The Border as Abjecting Apparatus: Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea (2020) and Purple Sea (2019)Randall Halle
6. The Politics of the Machinic Voice in Gerd Kroske's Documentary SPK Komplex (2018)Olivia Landry
Part III. Reassembling the Archives of Radical Filmmaking
7. Marking Time after UtopiaRichard Langston
8. Remediations of Cinefeminism in Contemporary German FilmHester Baer
9. A Few Takes toward Reassembling (the Dream of) the People: Julian Radlmaier's Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes (2017)Claudia Breger
Part IV. Intimate Connections: Aesthetics and Politics of a Cinema of Relations
10. Choric Configurations and the Collective: Ruth Beckermann's FilmsFatima Naqvi
11. Aerial Aesthetics, Queer Intimacy, and the Politics of Repose in the Cinema of Nils Bökamp and Monika TreutErvin Malakaj
12. Between Observational Detachment and Affective Attachment: The Posthumanist Pedagogy of Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse (2021)Angelica Fenner
Notes on the Contributors
Index