The Lives of Others : (Das Leben der Anderen) Paperback / softback
by Annie (University of Cambridge, UK) Ring
Part of the BFI Film Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
This study offers a fresh approach to the remarkable German film The Lives of Others (2006), known for its compelling representation of a Stasi surveillance officer and the moral and ethical turmoil that results when he begins spying on a playwright and his actress lover. Annie Ring analyses the film's cinematography, mise-en-scène and editing, tracing connections with Hollywood movies such as Casablanca and Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain in the film's portrayal of an individual rebelling against a brutal dehumanising regime.
Drawing on archival sources, including primary research from the Stasi files themselves, as well as Enlightenment philosophies of art and Brecht’s theories on theatre dating from his GDR years, she explores the film's strong but much-disputed claims to historical authenticity.
She examines the way the film tracks the world-changing political shift that took place at the end of the Cold War – away from the collective dreams of socialism and towards the dreams of the private individual, arguing that this is what makes it at once widely appealing and fascinatingly problematic.
In doing so, she highlights why The Lives of Others is a crucial film for thinking at the horizon between film and recent world history.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:104 pages, 50 colour illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/10/2022
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- ISBN:9781839025303
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:104 pages, 50 colour illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/10/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781839025303
