Peter Lilienthal: A Cinema of Exile and Resistance

Claudia Sandberg

Published by Berghahn Books 2021

Peter Lilienthal

A Cinema of Exile and Resistance

Claudia Sandberg

Volume 25 in the series Film Europa

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800730922

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Best known for his 1979 film David, Peter Lilienthal was an unusual figure within postwar filmmaking circles. A child refugee from Nazi Germany who grew up in Uruguay, he was uniquely situated at the crossroads of German, Jewish, and Latin American cultures: while his work emerged from West German auteur filmmaking, his films bore the unmistakable imprints of Jewish thought and the militant character of New Latin American cinema. Peter Lilienthal is the first comprehensive study of Lilienthal’s life and career, highlighting the distinctively cross-cultural and transnational dimensions of his oeuvre, and exploring his role as an early exemplar of a more vibrant, inclusive European film culture.

Author / Editor information

Claudia Sandberg is a film historian and filmmaker. She is employed at the University of Melbourne as Senior Research and Teaching Fellow. Among other works, she created the documentary Hidden Films: A Journey between Exile and Memory (2016) with Alejandro Areal Vélez. Sandberg co-edited the volumes Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Resisting Neoliberalism? (2018) and The German Cinema Book (Second edition, 2020).

Reviews

“Peter Lilienthal: A cinema of Exile and Resistance is a book that positions itself into the field of transnational cinema and adopts … an instructive and beneficial point of departure for an analysis of a cinema that moves cross-continental. … Sandberg’s analysis has enormous potential and is a prompt to re-consider the work of cineastes such as Helvio Soto, Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento, Marilú Mallet, Angelina Vásquez and the genre of exile cinema in general.” • Wolfgang Bongers, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago for Imagofagia

“A great study of Lilienthal’s oeuvre, enriched by Claudia Sandberg’s personal interactions with Lilienthal, which updates the existing scholarship on this filmmaker.” • Laurie Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Peter Lilienthal is an important and compelling study of a historically marginalized director and his commitments to transnational filmmaking. Vivid in description and rich in history, Claudia Sandberg's book engages us in exciting and insightful discussions of Lilienthal’s films and reminds us of their continuing relevance.” • Olivia Landry, Lehigh University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction. An Uneasy Fit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. A Jewish Filmmaker in Postwar Germany Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Chapter 2. Of Rebels, Soldiers, and Dreamers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Chapter 3. Across the Cold War Divide Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Conclusion. Recovering Lost Pasts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Appendix. In Dialogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Lilienthal’s Filmography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
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Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 222
Keywords: Film and Television Studies

eBook

Published: July 16, 2021
ISBN: 9781800730922