Beyond the left: violence and the politics of affect in Roland Klick's Bübchen (Little Boy, 1968). Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Haegele, Lisa
• Is Part Of: Sixties. Volume 10:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 45
• Page End: 62
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: West German Cinema -- politics -- 1968 -- Roland Klick -- affect -- Bübchen -- New German Cinema; Nineteen sixties -- Periodicals; Protest movements -- Periodicals; 909.826
• DOI: 10.1080/17541328.2017.1317973
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1754-1328

Abstract

Abstract: Responding to Marco Abel and Alexander Vazansky's recent provocation to reevaluate and expand the notion of the "political" in late 1960s West German cinema, I argue in this essay that Roland Klick's film Bübchen is "political" not only to the extent that it critically represents West German bourgeois morality, but also – and moreover – because it stages this critique through forms that deviate from the standard aesthetics of the Young German Cinema. In conclusion, I suggest that the film challenges us to rethink not only what "political" cinema was in the "long 1968, " but also what political filmmaking might be today.