New Austrian Film [Paperback]

Out of a film culture originally starved of funds have emerged rich and eclectic works by film-makers that are now achieving the international recognition that they deserve: Barbara Albert, Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, and Stefan Ruzowitzky, to give four examples. This comprehensive critical anthology, by leading scholars of Austrian film, is intended to introduce and make accessible this much under-represented phenomenon. Although the book covers the full development of the Austrian new wave it focuses on the period that has brought it global attention: 1998 to the present.New Austrian Filmis the only book currently available on this topic and will be an essential reference work for academics, students and filmmakers, interested in modern Austrian film.

Oliver C. Speckis Associate Professor of Film Studies and Graduate Program Director of the M.I.S. Concentration in Cinema and Language at Virginia Commonwealth University, School of World Studies. His scholarly writing focuses on narrative strategies and the representation of memory and history in European cinema. He is the author ofFunny Frames: The Filmic Concepts of Michael Haneke(2010), and editor ofQuentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema(2014).
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Introduction:New Austrian Film: The Non-Exceptional Exception

PART I: EARLY VISIONS/INFLUENTIAL SITES

Chapter 1. The Experiment is Not Yet Finished : VALIE EXPORT's Avant Garde Film
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger

Chapter 2.Franz Antel'sBockererSeries: Constructing the Historical Myth of the Austrian Second Republic
Joseph Moser

Chapter 3.Historical Drama of a Well-Intentioned Kind: Wolfgang Gl?ck's:38: Auch das war Wien
Felix Tweraselƒ'