Ferdinand Khittl's Die Parallelstraße: Ecological Thinking and the Implicated Subject.
Ferdinand Khittl's Die Parallelstraße (The Parallel Street 1962) is an understudied docufiction from an early moment in the Young German Cinema. It hybridizes industrial film techniques cross-sectional montage in particular with experimental prose poetry to achieve an ecological mode of storytelling...
| Published in: | German Studies Review Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 455 - 475 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Oct2024
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| Summary: | Ferdinand Khittl's Die Parallelstraße (The Parallel Street 1962) is an understudied docufiction from an early moment in the Young German Cinema. It hybridizes industrial film techniques cross-sectional montage in particular with experimental prose poetry to achieve an ecological mode of storytelling. These aesthetic strategies make a network of global extraction and exchange sensuously cognizable facilitating the viewer's self-recognition as an implicated subject. In an early instance of multidirectional memory (Rothberg) representations of particular nodes in this network are shown to take up the project of Vergangenheitsbewältigung and unite it with postcolonial concerns around environmental degradation and exploitation throughout the Global South. |
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