{"product_id":"berlin-replayed-brigitta-b-wagner-9780816691746","title":"Berlin Replayed: Cinema and Urban Nostalgia in the Postwall Era","description":"\u003cp\u003eScarred by the Second World War, divided during the Cold War, and turned into a massive construction site in the early postwall years, Berlin has dramatically reinvented itself in the new millennium. Film has served a neglected but important function in this transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBerlin Replayed, \u003c\/i\u003e Brigitta B. Wagner shows how old and new films set in Berlin created a collective urban nostalgia for the city's best, most inclusive, and most conciliatory pasts in the face of its renewed purpose as the all-German capital. Exploring films such as Walter Ruttmann's \u003ci\u003eBerlin: Symphony of a Great City, \u003c\/i\u003e Wim Wenders's \u003ci\u003eWings of Desire, \u003c\/i\u003eTom Tykwer's \u003ci\u003eRun Lola Run, \u003c\/i\u003eand Wolfgang Becker's \u003ci\u003eGood Bye, Lenin , \u003c\/i\u003e the book establishes that these films don't merely feature the city but actively construct how viewers come to know different Berlins of the past and present. To illustrate how film has repeatedly remade the image of the city, \u003ci\u003eBerlin Replayed\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on four key periods: the golden 1920s, when the city was a major filmmaking center; the prewall 1950s, when Berlin had two ideologically opposed film industries; the politically transformative late 1980s and early 1990s; and the hyped start of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy showing how films have helped revive memories of the \"good\" Berlin and, by extension, the \"good\" Germany, \u003ci\u003eBerlin Replayed\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the underappreciated but powerful role film has played in the process of unifying Germany's historical experience and bridging its physical and political divisions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brigitta B. Wagner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816691746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816691746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Brigitta B. Wagner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072818868479,"sku":"9780816691746","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fb80effa-5448-43e1-a3fe-668beac1efc1.jpg?v=1685444111","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/berlin-replayed-brigitta-b-wagner-9780816691746","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}