Toni Erdmann Paperback / softback
by Professor Gerd (Series Editor) Gemunden
Part of the Camden House German Film Classics series
Paperback / softback
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The first in-depth analysis of Maren Ade's acclaimed contemporary classic, a generational tug-of-war about the meaning of life, work, and death. Maren Ade's tragicomedy Toni Erdmann, a 2016 Cannes sensation and Oscar nominee, is an internationally acclaimed classic of recent German cinema.
By turns hilarious, cringeworthy, and heart-wrenching, the film revolves around Winfried, a retired music teacher and prankster trying to rebuild a relationship with his daughter Ines, a high-powered business consultant based in Bucharest.
At its center, this unpredictable scenario pits one type of performance - Ines's efforts to meet the unyielding expectations of the new economy - against another - Winfried's anarchic role-play meant to disrupt the standardization of life.
This book, the first in-depth analysis of the film, explores the many layers of this generational tug-of-war about the meaning of life, work, and death.
Employing Ade's trademark minimalist style, the film deftly comments on the precarity of life; the gendering of labor in the new economy; the re-definition of feminism by the children of the generation of 1968; and reconfigured East-West relations in post-Wall Europe.
Lastly, in light of Ade's artisanal mode of filmmaking, in which she regularly assumes the role of writer, director, and producer, Toni Erdmann becomes a highly self-reflexive comment on the neoliberal dictates of global art cinema.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages, 34 colour illus.
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:15/09/2021
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- ISBN:9781640141094
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages, 34 colour illus.
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:15/09/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781640141094