The Black German Studies and Critical Race Theory Workshop Series

Speaker(s): Karina Griffith - University of Toronto/UdK Berlin

This lecture and Q&A will be held remotely on Zoom. There will be a Zoom invitation sent on the day of the event

Karina Griffith -  Ph.D. Candidate in Cinema Studies and Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto and Lecturer at the Berlin University of Art (UdK)

„Betroffenheitskino: Cinema of Consternation.”


This research examines the affect of consternation and offers it as the primary emotion involved in the much-maligned sub-genre: Betroffenheitskino. The study contributes an analysis of a new film movement spearheaded by Black authors in German cinema that rejects consternation favoring positive affects. Representations of unfettered Black mobility in Europe and a focus on respect rather than belonging characterize this movement's films. Through textual analysis of Black-authored German moving image over fifty years, Karina Griffith identifies the cinematic strategies of affective representation through common choices and techniques in editing, mise en scène and cinematography

 

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