Filming the Phantoms of Berlin

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Andrew Webber (Cambridge)
• Tuesday 01 March 2011, 17:15-19:00
• CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Daniel Jonah Wolpert.

City Seminar CRASSH

City Seminar: Andrew Webber This paper considers the 2005 film Gespenster (Ghosts) by one of Germany’s leading contemporary directors, Christian Petzold. It is a film about identity, relationship and loss, set between the cultivated wilderness of the Tiergarten Park and the sterilised modernity under surveillance of the reconstructed Potsdamer Platz. Reading the film with Derrida’s Specters of Marx, the paper considers what is the character – ontological and political – of the haunting that gives the film its title.

Andrew Webber is Professor of Modern German and Comparative Culture in Cambridge. He undertakes research in German and Austrian culture in the modern period, with special interests in narrative writing, film, and cultural theory and analysis.

This talk is part of the Film Screenings and Talks series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX
• Cambridge Countercultural Studies Research Group
• Film Screenings and Talks

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.