German Ways of War
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German Ways of War

The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films

  1. 226 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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German Ways of War

The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films

About this book

German Ways of War deploys theories of space, mobility, and affect to investigate how war films realize their political projects. Analyzing films across the decades, from the 1910s to 2000s, German Ways of War addresses an important lacuna in media studies: while scholars have tended to focus on the similarities between cinematic looking and weaponized targeting -- between shooting a camera and discharging a gun – this book argues that war films negotiate spaces throughout that frame their violence in ways more revealing than their battle scenes. Beyond that well-known intersection of visuality and violence, German Ways of War explores how the genre frames violence within spatio-affective operations. The production of novel spaces and evocation of new affects transform war films, including the genre's manipulation of mobility, landscape, territory, scales, and topological networks. Such effects amount to what author Jaimey Fisher terms the films' "affective geographies" that interweave narrative-generated affects, spatial depictions, and political processes.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. 1. Introduction
  6. 2. Land into Landscape, Landscape into Territory: Transformations of Space in German War Cinema, 1914–1918: (The Diary of Dr. Hart, 1917/1918; Sword and Hearth, 1916; Inexpiable, 1917)
  7. 3. Landscapes of Death and Memories of the Human: Distance, Scale, and the Double Map of the First “War-Sound-Film”: (Westfront 1918, 1930; Camaraderie, 1931)
  8. 4. Combat Films and Their Aerial Spaces under the Nazi Regime: (Medal of Honor, 1938; Squadron Lützow, 1941; Above Everything in the World, 1941)
  9. 5. Out of the War Mode: Demobilizing the War Genre in the Postwar Rubble Film: (Request Concert, 1940; The Great Love, 1942; Ways into Twilight, 1949; The Sons of Mr. Gaspary, 1948; Birds of Migration, 1946/1947)
  10. 6. War in the Reconstructive 1950s: Genre, Espionage, and Cold War Subjectivities in the War Film: (Canaris, 1955; The Fox of Paris, 1957; Rommel Calls Cairo, 1959)
  11. 7. Conclusion: Affective Geographies of the Fading Genre: (The Boat, 1981; Downfall, 2004)
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Notes
  14. Selected Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. About the Author
  17. Available titles in the War Culture series