Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Contributors -- Introduction: Beyond the cinema of consensus? New directions in German cinema since 2000 -- Paul Cooke and Chris Homewood -- 1. 'A kind of species memory': the time of the elephants in the space of Alexander Kluge's cinematic principle -- John E. Davidson -- 2. Downfall (2004): Hitler in the new millennium and the (ab)uses of history -- Christine Haase -- 3. 'Wonderfully courageous'? The human face of a legend in Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) -- Owen Evans -- 4. Music after Mauthausen: re-presenting the Holocaust in Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters (2007) -- Brad Prager -- 5. Aiming to please? Consensus and consciousness-raising in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin (2003) -- Nick Hodgin -- 6. Watching the Stasi: authenticity, Ostalgie and history in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others (2006) -- Paul Cooke -- 7. From Baader to Prada: memory and myth in Uli Edel's The Badeer Meinhof Complex (2008) -- Chris Homewood -- 8. The absent Heimat: Hans-Christian Schmid's Requiem (2006) -- David Clarke -- 9. Play for today: situationist protests and uncanny encounters in Hans Weingartner's The Edukators (2004) -- Rachel Palfreyman -- 10. German Autoren dialogue with Hollywood? Refunctioning the horror genre in Christian Petzold's -- 11. 'A sharpening of our regard': realism, affect and the redistribution of the sensible in Valeska Grisebach's Longing (2006) -- Marco Abel -- 12. Too late for love? The cinema of Andreas Dresen on Cloud 9 (2008) -- Laura G. McGee -- 13. 'Seeing everything with different eyes': the diasporic optic of Fatih Akin's Head-On (2004) -- Daniela Berghahn -- 14. No place like Heimat: mediaspaces and moving landscapes in Edgar Reitz's Heimat 3 (2004) -- Alasdair King -- Bibliography -- Index.