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Author Jaimey Fisher

Jaimey Fisher

Jaimey Fisher is Professor of German and Cinema and Technocultural Studies as well as Director of the Davis Humanities Institute at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Christian Petzold (University of Illinois Press, 2013) as well as Disciplining German: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War (Wayne State Press, 2007). He edited the volume Generic Histories of German Cinema: Genre and its Deviations (Camden House, 2013) and has also co-edited the forthcoming The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art-Cinema (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018) with Marco Abel; Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century with Brad Prager (2010); Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture (2010) with Barbara Mennel; and, Critical Theory: Current State and Future Prospects (2001) with Peter Hohendahl. His current book-project analyses war films in Germany from 1914-1961.

Of Art Cinema, its Discontents and its Triumphs: The 72nd Locarno Film Festival

Jaimey Fisher
October 2019
Festival Reports
This year’s edition of the Locarno Film Festival, the 72nd, welcomed a new artistic director, Lili Hinstin, after the departure last year of Carlo Chatrian to (co-) head up the Berlin festival. Hintsin’s arriva...

Locarno Interview: Ying Liang and his Family Tour

Jaimey Fisher
March 2019
Interviews
The 71st Locarno (Film) Festival was Carlo Chatrian’s last as artistic director, and it offered an unusually strong Concorso internazionale (International Competition section). The Concorso internazionale saw, ...
Christian Petzold

Christian Petzold: A Dossier

Jaimey Fisher and Marco Abel
September 2017
Christian Petzold: A Dossier
Who is Petzold? If one were to pose this eponymous question – a self-evident one at the start of this Dossier on the German director Christian Petzold – the year 2016 might help bring an answer into notably sh...
Christian Petzold

The Cinema is a Warehouse of Memory: A Conversation Among Christian Petzold, Robert Fischer, and Jaimey Fisher

Jaimey Fisher and Robert Fischer
September 2017
Christian Petzold: A Dossier
Translated by Jaimey Fisher This conversation among writer/director Christian Petzold, senior programmer Robert Fischer, and Prof. Jaimey Fisher of University of California, Davis was part of the “Filmmaker Li...
Christian Petzold

Petzold’s Phoenix, Fassbinder’s Maria Braun, and the Melodramatic Archaeology of the Rubble Past

Jaimey Fisher
September 2017
Christian Petzold: A Dossier
The Benjaminian Writings on the Wall and Petzold’s Archaeology of Genre In an early scene in Christian Petzold’s 2015 Phoenix, protagonist Nelly Lenz lies in a hospital bed as her friend Lene Winter lists fami...
locarno film festival

The Locarno Film Festival is dead, Long Live the Locarno Festival: The 70th Locarno (Film) Festival

Jaimey Fisher
September 2017
Festival Reports
On the seventieth anniversary of the Locarno Film Festival, the festival reinvented, or, rather, reintroduced itself in several intriguing ways. Much of the early talk this year concerned the completion of a ne...
Locarno festival report

Looking In: The 69th Locarno Film Festival and its Outsider Perspectives

Jaimey Fisher
September 2016
Festival Reports
When, in May, long-time festival regular Ken Loach took his second Cannes Palme d’Or for I, Daniel Blake, there was understandable moaning from many quarters that – despite the pre-festival press about female f...
Berlinale film festival review

Berlinale 2016: Perspektive Deutsches Kino

Jaimey Fisher
March 2016
Festival Reports
On the second full day of this year’s Berlin Film Festival, George Clooney’s earnest face peered out with an admonishing pointer finger from one of the local tabloids – not, as one might expect, in the well-wor...
Locarno film festival review

Despite (or With) the Politics… Work-Life and -Love Balances: The 68th Locarno Film Festival

Jaimey Fisher
September 2015
Festival Reports
The annual controversy at this year’s Locarno Film Festival started well before its screens flickered to life in early August. In fact, a vehement protest, heated debate, and threatened boycott started almost a...

Political Ghosts and Roiling Generations: The 67th Locarno Film Festival

Jaimey Fisher
October 2014
Festival Reports
In the fierce arena fight of film festivals, Locarno might have gone one battle too far this year when it invited Roman Polanski for a lifetime achievement award, with its requisite appearance at the festival’s...

Uncomfortably at Home: German Films at the 64th Berlinale

Jaimey Fisher
March 2014
Festival Reports
In the press conference for Stereo, one of the Berlin Film Festival’s German films, the cast was asked why their film had already sold out its large, Zoo-Palast premiere whereas George Clooney’s The Monuments M...

The Body in and of History: The 66th Locarno Film Festival

Jaimey Fisher
September 2013
Festival Reports
Midway through the 2013 Locarno Festival, celebrated Georgian director Otar Iosseliani made headlines by exposing a normally veiled aspect of the festival circuit. Iosseliani was in the scenic Italian-Swiss lak...

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