Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Radical Pessimism as a Form of Resistance: Political Drama in the Age of Surplus Humanity and New Fascism

pp 13-14

1 - Transit (2018) and Postfascism

pp 15-31

2 - “Her mit dem schönen Leben”: Happiness and Access in Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)

pp 32-49

3 - Negative Futurability and the Politics of Pessimism in Fatih Akın’s Aus dem Nichts (2017)

pp 50-66

Part II - Rethinking the Evidence: New Documentary Forms

pp 67-68

4 - Forensic Fallacies

pp 69-82

5 - The Border as Abjecting Apparatus: Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea (2020) and Purple Sea (2019)

pp 83-101

6 - The Politics of the Machinic Voice in Gerd Kroske’s Documentary SPK Komplex (2018)

pp 102-118

Part III - Reassembling the Archives of Radical Filmmaking

pp 119-120

7 - Marking Time after Utopia

pp 121-141

8 - Remediations of Cinefeminism in Contemporary German Film

pp 142-161

9 - A Few Takes toward Reassembling (the Dream of) the People: Julian Radlmaier’s Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes (2017)

pp 162-180

Part IV - Intimate Connections: Aesthetics and Politics of a Cinema of Relations

pp 181-182

10 - Choric Configurations and the Collective: Ruth Beckermann’s Films

pp 183-201

11 - Aerial Aesthetics, Queer Intimacy, and the Politics of Repose in the Cinema of Nils Bökamp and Monika Treut

pp 202-218

12 - Between Observational Detachment and Affective Attachment: The Posthumanist Pedagogy of Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse (2021)

pp 219-236

Notes on the Contributors

pp 237-240

Index

pp 241-247