Marco Abel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Abel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Abel |
| SIGNATURE | ABEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Queering Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia
After the Berlinale press screening of Christian Petzold's Roter Himmel (Afire, 2023), I overheard a conversation in which the interlocutors praised this film about four young people spending a few (deceptively) lighthearted summer days at the Baltic Sea while a nearby forest is afire as a return to form for the director. Yet they questioned Roter Himmel's sexual politics because its narrative sacrifices the queer interracial couple, Felix (Langs…
"Johannes Schaaf's Tätowierung (Tattoo, 1967), West German Cinema around 1968, and the Joys of Violence; or, The Forgotten Case of the "Aesthetic Left
Focusing on Johannes Schaaf's neglected film Tätowierung (Tattoo, 1967), this essay revisits a film-theoretical and film-political debate in West Germany around 1968 that involved a conflict between the so-called political Left and the aesthetic Left. Attending to the kinds of violence around which the film is structured, the essay hypothesizes that the film, which was well received on its release, diagnosed emerging political developments in rem…
Celluloid Revolt
Provides new insights into German-language cinema around 1968 and its relationship to the period's epoch-making cultural and political happenings
Jaimey Fisher. Christian Petzold
Introduction
This special issue on the question of what politics was in West Germany in “1968” – a cypher we will return to below – has emerged out of a three-day seminar we had organized for the 2013 annual me
The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School
Introduction: "So this was Germany?" a preliminary account of the Berlin School -- The first wave. Thomas Arslan: realism beyond identity -- Christian Petzold: Heimat-building as utopia -- Angela Schanelec: narrative, understanding, language -- The second wave. Revolver-cinema and "lectrons libres" "cinema must be dangerous" -- Christoph Hochhäusler: intensifying life -- Benjamin Heisenberg: filming simply as resistance -- Valeska Grisebach: "a s…
Failing to Connect
The contemporary German filmmaker Oskar Roehler can be considered a “postromance” director whose films obsessively present so-called single-generation protagonists who often blame their inability to maintain successful relationships on their generational predecessors, the 68ers. When considered individually, these films' relentless iteration of the same problem might come across as self-pitying auteurist expressions of oedipal lack. But by attend…
Violent Affect
Judgment Is Not an Exit
Fargo
Using Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy of "immanence"; and "concepts"; as an entry into the violent 1995 film Fargo, this essay argues for the necessity to produce a cinematic rhetoric of violence that gets beyond the crippling moralizing framework provided by the prevailing freedom‐of‐speech/censorship debate. Fargo is exceptionally well‐suited for developing this new cinematic rhetoric because the film connects "violence"; as a concept to a mo…
One Goal Is Still Lacking
One Goal Is Still Lacking
Fargo
Using Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy of "immanence"; and "concepts"; as an entry into the violent 1995 film Fargo, this essay argues for the necessity to produce a cinematic rhetoric of violence that gets beyond the crippling moralizing framework provided by the prevailing freedom‐of‐speech/censorship debate. Fargo is exceptionally well‐suited for developing this new cinematic rhetoric because the film connects "violence"; as a concept to a mo…
Judgment Is Not an Exit
Violent Affect
Failing to Connect
The contemporary German filmmaker Oskar Roehler can be considered a “postromance” director whose films obsessively present so-called single-generation protagonists who often blame their inability to maintain successful relationships on their generational predecessors, the 68ers. When considered individually, these films' relentless iteration of the same problem might come across as self-pitying auteurist expressions of oedipal lack. But by attend…
The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School
Introduction: "So this was Germany?" a preliminary account of the Berlin School -- The first wave. Thomas Arslan: realism beyond identity -- Christian Petzold: Heimat-building as utopia -- Angela Schanelec: narrative, understanding, language -- The second wave. Revolver-cinema and "lectrons libres" "cinema must be dangerous" -- Christoph Hochhäusler: intensifying life -- Benjamin Heisenberg: filming simply as resistance -- Valeska Grisebach: "a s…
Introduction
This special issue on the question of what politics was in West Germany in “1968” – a cypher we will return to below – has emerged out of a three-day seminar we had organized for the 2013 annual me
Jaimey Fisher. Christian Petzold
Celluloid Revolt
Provides new insights into German-language cinema around 1968 and its relationship to the period's epoch-making cultural and political happenings
"Johannes Schaaf's Tätowierung (Tattoo, 1967), West German Cinema around 1968, and the Joys of Violence; or, The Forgotten Case of the "Aesthetic Left
Focusing on Johannes Schaaf's neglected film Tätowierung (Tattoo, 1967), this essay revisits a film-theoretical and film-political debate in West Germany around 1968 that involved a conflict between the so-called political Left and the aesthetic Left. Attending to the kinds of violence around which the film is structured, the essay hypothesizes that the film, which was well received on its release, diagnosed emerging political developments in rem…
Queering Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia
After the Berlinale press screening of Christian Petzold's Roter Himmel (Afire, 2023), I overheard a conversation in which the interlocutors praised this film about four young people spending a few (deceptively) lighthearted summer days at the Baltic Sea while a nearby forest is afire as a return to form for the director. Yet they questioned Roter Himmel's sexual politics because its narrative sacrifices the queer interracial couple, Felix (Langs…
Art (6 works) · European history and politics (5 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · German History and Society (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works)