Record of a Human Jungle
TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 1 Charles Desmet Download PDF (Text Only) In 2002, the French Minister of Internal Affairs decided to dismantle a refugee camp in Sangatte, which is near the channel tunnel of Calais, because the camp had been declared unstable due to overpopulation and tensions with the local inhabitants (Mulholland). Nonetheless, after the […]
The Province Always Rings Twice: Christian Petzold’s Heimatfilm noir Jerichow
Alasdair King Download PDF Abstract: After achieving critical success as one of Germany’s leading contemporary film makers with his Gespenster/Ghosts trilogy (2000, 2005, 2007), Christian Petzold’s subsequent film, Jerichow (2008) has continued his interest in utilizing genre conventions to explore the dynamics between his central characters, lost in the forgotten and empty spaces of post-unification […]