Phoenix Prager Paperback Boydell and Brewer 9781640140387

Phoenix\nby Professor Brad Prager\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Professor Brad Prager\nTitle: Phoenix\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Film history, theory or criticism\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781640140387\nISBN-10: 1640140387\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nOffers not only a close reading but also a film-historical contextualization of Phoenix, constituting the most significant and thorough study of Petzold's film to date.\nChristian Petzold's Phoenix (2014), a masterpiece from one of Germany's leading contemporary filmmakers, portrays a death-camp survivor's return to occupied Berlin just after the war has come to an end. Nelly, played by German film star Nina Hoss, returns badly wounded, her face covered in bandages, hop.