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Dear all,

Colleagues might be interested in this volume, which has just appeared
with Degruyter.
Best wishes,
Paul

"The Lives of Others" and Contemporary German Film, ed. by Paul Cooke


Table of Contents 
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?Introduction
The Lives of Others and Contemporary German Film film

I. Making the Film
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Introduced by Christopher Young
Chapter One
Seeing a Film Before You Make It

Manfred Wilke
Chapter Two
Wiesler¹s Turn to Dissidence and the History behind the Film

Randall Halle
Chapter Three
The Lives of Others, the New Matrix of Production and the Profitable Past

Jaimey Fisher
Chapter Four
A Historical Sort of Stardom: Casting, Ulrich Mühe and The Lives of
Others¹ Authenticity Problem

II. Re-positioning the Film
Andrea Rinke
Chapter Five
Fear and (Self-)Loathing in East Berlin: Gender and Melodrama in The Lives
of Others 


David Bathrick
Chapter Six
Der Tangospieler Coming in from the Cold Once and for All? The Lives of
Others as Cold War Spy film
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Marc Silberman
Chapter Seven
The Lives of Others: Screenplay as Literature and the Literary Film

Ian Thomas Fleishman
Chapter Eight
International ŒAuditorism¹: The Postnational Politics of Interpretation of
von Donnersmarck¹s The Lives of Others

III. Beyond the Film
Lutz Koepnick
Chapter Nine
The Sounds of Others

Sabine Hake
Chapter Ten
On the Lives of Objects

Paul Cooke
Chapter Eleven
Von Donnersmarck¹s Dialogue with Hollywood:
from The Lives of Others to The Tourist (2010)

Eric Rentschler
Chapter Twelve
The Lives of Others: The History of Heritage and the Rhetoric of Consensus


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Professor Paul Cooke
Centenary Chair in World Cinemas
Faculty of Arts Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation
Leeds Humanities Research Institute
29-31 Clarendon Place
University of Leeds
Leeds
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