Tobias Haupts
Author
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Between 1977 and 1987, a cycle of innovative films founded the genre of fantasy. Embedded within the US (film) culture of the decade, the filmmakers created audiovisual stagings that continue to shape how society remembers the 1980s. This essay looks at these films in film-analytical case studies to draw out a (historical) poetics of the genre.
Ende der 1970er-Jahre formierte sich im US-amerikanischen Kino ein neuer Genrezyklus. Ausgehend von der...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Did 1968 fail? The question is misstated. For the significance and consequences of '68 cannot be captured in a coherent narrative. That year appears as the point of culmination of a set of highly heterogeneous cultural, social, and political phenomena. Cinema, with its classics and gems to be (re-)discovered, proves to be a kaleidoscope that lets us perceive the fractures and contradictions of '68.
Ist 1968 gescheitert? Die Frage ist falsch gestellt....