Overview

The Cinema Makers investigates how cinema spectators in southeastern and central European cities became cinema makers through such practices as squatting in existing cinema spaces, organizing cinema ""events,"" writing about film, and making films themselves. Drawing on a corpus of interviews with cinema activists in Germany, Austria, and the former Yugoslavia, Anna Schober compares the activities and artistic productions they staged in cities such as Vienna, Cologne, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Subotica, Zagreb, and Sarajevo. The resulting study illuminates the differences and similarities in the development of political culture—and cinema’s role in that development—in European countries with pluralist-democratic, one-party socialist, and post-socialist traditions.  

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Author:   Anna Schober
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9781841505152

ISBN 10:   1841505153
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   15 May 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: In the middle of things: city, cinema and the public sphere 1.1. Cinema’s potential for creating a public sphere  1.2. Difference and the unfamiliar  1.3. The subject in process: rituals, revolt and storytelling  Chapter 2: Movements and places: modern order and the cinema-squats of the 1960s 2.1. Cinema and the modern attempt to eliminate ambivalence  2.2. To become cinema-makers: expanded and other cinemas, the Crni Talas and OHO  2.3. Transnationality: interaction and struggle vis-à-vis official strategies  2.4. Difference, privatized ambivalence and the (informal) public sphere  Chapter 3: Films and urban interventions: the rediscovery of difference since the 1960s  3.1. The migrant guest worker: Fassbinder’s interventions in the projection spaces of the imagination  3.2. The figuration of difference as aesthetic, sexual and ethnic difference in Yugoslav cinema since the 1960s Chapter 4: Follow-up initiatives  4.1. Violence and humour: cinema activism in times of war  4.2. Enthusiasm and critique: cinema between flash mob, new urban transition spaces and art

Reviews

'Schober also impressively captures the tone and spirit of 1960s youth culture, its irreverence, its politics and its playfulness.'  -- The Slavonic and East European Review, Dragana Obradović 'This volume proposes a convincing, refreshing, and inspiring interpretation of almost forty years of film activism in central and south-eastern Europe. This book deserves to be widely read and discussed.'  -- Kult Online, Fernando Ramos Arenas 'Schober’s thorough study represents a compelling stepping-stone to further multidisciplinary work on cinema and urban public'  -- Transnational Cinemas, Martin Zebracki 'The Cinema Makers is, undoubtedly, an interesting work to understand arthouse cinema in terms of production and consumption in fortress Europe and, more importantly, on its mostly unexplored margins. ' -- Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Ana Bento-Ribeiro '[T]his is an authoritative yet accessible and stimulating study of one of cinema's headiest moments, particularly felt in Schober's ability to covey the character and vitality of 1960s European culture across diverse political environments. '  -- Ann Murray, Journal of Contemporary European Studies

'Schober also impressively captures the tone and spirit of 1960s youth culture, its irreverence, its politics and its playfulness.' 'This volume proposes a convincing, refreshing, and inspiring interpretation of almost forty years of film activism in central and south-eastern Europe. This book deserves to be widely read and discussed.' 'Schober's thorough study represents a compelling stepping-stone to further multidisciplinary work on cinema and urban public' 'The Cinema Makers is, undoubtedly, an interesting work to understand arthouse cinema in terms of production and consumption in fortress Europe and, more importantly, on its mostly unexplored margins. ' '[T]his is an authoritative yet accessible and stimulating study of one of cinema's headiest moments, particularly felt in Schober's ability to covey the character and vitality of 1960s European culture across diverse political environments. '

Author Information

Anna Schober is Mercator visiting professor at Justus Liebig University Giessen. She received her Ph.D. as well as her postdoctoral habilitation in Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and was guest researcher at several international institutions such as the University of Essex, the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt. She has published widely on the aesthetic and political dimensions of the public sphere, popular culture, new social movements and gender studies.

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