“Generation War, which was broadcast as a mini-series on German television last year, is perhaps more interesting as an artifact of the present than as a representation of the past. As tWW2 slips from living memory, as Germany asserts its dominant role in Europe with increasing confidence, and as long-suppressed information emerges from the archives of former Eastern bloc countries, the war’s cultural significance for Germans has shifted.”>review (c) NYT, 2014
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“The Adventures of Prince Ahmed”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags animated film, cinematography, film, film history, Germany, Lotte Reiniger, Orientalism, Prinz Achmed on 19 February 2013 by delclem
This is the first known/preserved animated film (Lotte Reiniger, Germany, 1926)
and a striking example of popular Orientalism in early Modernism as well.
