15: Revolting Formats: Hellmuth Costard’s Der kleine Godard: An das Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968 1
5. Part I
6. 1: Peter Zadek’s Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame: Discussing “1968” by Means of “1968 Thinking” 27
7. 2: “Break the Power of the Manipulators”: Film and the West German 1968 42
8. 3: Ideological Rupture in the dffb: An Analysis of Hans-Rüdiger Minow’s Berlin, 2. Juni 53
9. 4: Helke Sander’s dffb Films and West Germany’s Feminist Movement 69
10. 5: Film Feminisms in West German Cinema: A Public Sphere for Feminist Politics 87
11. 6: A Laboratory for Political Film: The Formative Years of the German Film and Television Academy and Participatory Filmmaking from Workerism to Feminism 105
12. 7: West Germany’s “Workers’ Films”: A Cinema in the Service of Television? 122
13. 8: Guns, Girls, and Gynecologists: West German Exploitation Cinema and the St. Pauli Film Wave in the Late 1960s 134
14. 9: Mediation, Expansion, Event: Reframing the Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative 152
15. 10: Prague Displaced: Political Tourism in the East German Blockbuster Heißer Sommer 168
16. 11: Animating the Socialist Personality: DEFA Fairy Tale Trickfilme in the Shadow of 1968 183
17. 12: Allegories of Resistance: The Legacy of 1968 in GDR Visual Cultures 201
18. 13: “You Say You Want a Revolution”: East German Film at the Crossroads between the Cinemas 218
19. 14: Cruel Optimism, Post-68 Nostalgia, and the Limits of Political Activism in Helma Sanders-Brahms’s Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand 237
20. 15: Revolting Formats: Hellmuth Costard’s Der kleine Godard: An das Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film 253
21. Part II In Conversation: Interviews with Filmmakers
22. 16: An Interview with Harun Farocki: “Holger Thought about Aesthetics and Politics Together” 271
23. 17: An Interview with Birgit Hein: “Art communicates knowledge that cannot be expressed in any other information system” 281
24. 18: An Interview with Klaus Lemke: “Being Smart Does Not Make Good Films” 292
25. Contributors 313
26. Index 319