{"product_id":"toni-erdmann-9781640141094","title":"Toni Erdmann","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gerd Gemünden\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Camden House (NY)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Camden House (NY)\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Film - History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first in-depth analysis of Maren Ade's acclaimed contemporary classic, a generational tug-of-war about the meaning of life, work, and death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaren Ade's tragicomedy Toni Erdmann, a 2016 Cannes sensation and Oscar nominee, is an internationally acclaimed classic of recent German cinema. By turns hilarious, cringeworthy, and heart-wrenching, the film revolves around Winfried, a retired music teacher and prankster trying to rebuild a relationship with his daughter Ines, a high-powered business consultant based in Bucharest. At its center, this unpredictable scenario pits one type of performance - Ines's efforts to meet the unyielding expectations of the new economy - against another - Winfried's anarchic role-play meant to disrupt the standardization of life. This book, the first in-depth analysis of the film, explores the many layers of this generational tug-of-war about the meaning of life, work, and death. Employing Ade's trademark minimalist style, the film deftly comments on the precarity of life; the gendering of labor in the new economy; the re-definition of feminism by the children of the generation of 1968; and reconfigured East-West relations in post-Wall Europe. Lastly, in light of Ade's artisanal mode of filmmaking, in which she regularly assumes the role of writer, director, and producer, Toni Erdmann becomes a highly self-reflexive comment on the neoliberal dictates of global art cinema.","brand":"Camden House (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45412372775063,"sku":"9781640141094","price":1896.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781640141094.webp?v=1767918212","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/toni-erdmann-9781640141094","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}