Leila Mukhida. Sensitive Subjects: The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema

by which to care enough to envision a better future unburdened by the violence of the present. I was particularly moved by the authors’ generous acknowledgement section, in which they expand on their own collaborative research and writing practice that shaped their book. In their own collaboration, care, and indeed intellectual intimacy practice, the authors see a means by which to resist, survive in, and push back against the forces of the neoliberal university. Their scholarly practices, their relation to the academy, and the subject matter to which they turn in their book all take on personal contours by which the authors model affirmative personal-scholarly connections to texts far removed from their own lived experience. To me, it is also very vital that this excellent book not only is available in paperback, hardback, and e-book format suitable for various academic and personal libraries but can also be obtained via open access made available through the Northwestern University website in collaboration with a number of institutions. Precarious Intimacies will become standard reading for scholars of Euro­ pean cinema studies. Its prose is accessible, its active engagement with scholarly and primary sources is varied and exciting, and its scope is broad. As such, it would also be an excellent text for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses. The book will certainly be part of reading lists for the courses I teach in the future.