Transnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism: Radical Aesthetics, Radical Politics

Front Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Radical Pessimism as a Form  of Resistance: Political Drama  in the Age of Surplus Humanity and New Fascism
1: Transit (2018) and Postfascism
2: “Her mit dem schönen Leben”: Happiness and Access in Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
3: Negative Futurability and the Politics of Pessimism in Fatih Akın’s Aus dem Nichts (2017)
Part II Rethinking the Evidence:  New Documentary Forms
4: Forensic Fallacies
5: The Border as Abjecting Apparatus: Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea (2020) and Purple Sea (2019)
6: The Politics of the Machinic Voice  in Gerd Kroske’s Documentary  SPK Komplex (2018)
Part III Reassembling the Archives  of Radical Filmmaking
7: Marking Time after Utopia
8: Remediations of Cinefeminism  in Contemporary German Film
9: A Few Takes toward Reassembling (the Dream of) the People: Julian Radlmaier’s Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes (2017)
Part IV Intimate Connections:  Aesthetics and Politics of  a Cinema of Relations
10: Choric Configurations and the Collective: Ruth Beckermann’s  Films
11: Aerial Aesthetics, Queer Intimacy, and the Politics of Repose in the Cinema of Nils Bökamp and Monika Treut
12: Between Observational Detachment and Affective Attachment: The Posthumanist Pedagogy of Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse (2021)
Contributors
Index