What is the work of film in the age of transnational production? To answer that question; Randall Halle focuses on the film industry of Germany; one of Europes largest film markets and one of the worlds largest film-producing nations. In the 1990s Germany experienced an extreme transition from a state-subsidized mode of film production that was free of anxious concerns about profit and audience entertainment to a mode dominated by private interest and big capital. At the same time; the European Union began actively drawing together the national markets of Germany and other European nations; sublating their individual significances into a synergistic whole. This book studies these changes broadly; but also focuses on the transformations in their particular national context. It balances film politics and film aesthetics; tracing transformations in financing along with analyses of particular films to describe the effects on the film object itself. Halle concludes that we witness currently the emergence of a new transnational aesthetic; a fundamental shift in cultural production with ramifications for communal identifications; state cohesion; and national economies.
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