Previous edition: 2002. Includes bibliographical references (pages [532]-569) and index.
Contents:
Evergreens : the Heimat genre / Johannes von Moltke -- Gloria-Filmverleih Gmbh / Joseph Garncarz -- Heimat (1984-2013) / Johannes von Moltke -- Irgendwo in Berlin (somewhere in Berlin, 1946) / Horst Claus -- Indianerfilme / Jon Raundalen -- German film comedy / Jan-Christopher Horak -- Reinhold Schünzel / Christian Rogowski -- Kurt Hoffmann / Chris Wahl -- Michael 'Bully' Herbig / Tim Bergfelder -- Notes on the German crime film / Tim Bergfelder -- M / Todd Herzog -- Why war films? / Jennifer Kapczynski -- Der untergang (Downfall, 2004) / Paul Cooke -- Unsere mütter, unsere Väter (Generation war, 2013) / Jennifer Kapczynski - Das leben der anderen (The lives of others, 2006) / Paul Cooke -- Asta Nielsen : protagonist of historicity / Heide Schlüpmann -- Abgründe (The abyss, 1910) / Claire Jesson -- Ossi Oswalda / Barbara Ottmann -- Performing the nation : myth-making and acting in Fritz Lang's Siegfried / Anton Kaes - Eroticism and international flair : exotic stars in Nazi cinema? / Antje Ascheid -- Hans Albers / Stephen Lowry -- Transnational stars : Dietrich, Knef, Scheider / Erica Carter -- Heinz Rühmann : the archetypal German / Stephen Lowry -- From East Germany to the west coast : Armin Muller-Stahl / Claudia Fellmer and Jon Raundalen -- German stars since reunification / Malte Hagener -- Hanna Schygulla / Ulrike Sieglohr -- Nina Hoss / Marco Abel -- Transatlantic careers : Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang / Sabine Hake -- F. W. Murnau / Nicholas Baer -- The shapes of Nazi film authorship / Eric Rentschler -- Walter Ruttmann / Michael Cowan -- Looking for Fassbinder : denationalizing authorship / Paul Cooke -- Heiner Carow / Barton Byg -- Two women filmmakers : Ulrike Ottinger and Angela Schanelec / Ulrike Sieglohr -- Helke Sander / Erica Carter -- Constructing authorship : Werner Herzog is his films / Brad Prager -- Wim Wenders / Gerd Gemünden -- Fatih Akin : global auteur / Barbara Mennel -- The Berlin School / Marco Abel -- The origins of film exhibition in Germany / Joseph Garncarz -- Early cinema and its audiences / Frank Kessler and Eva Warth -- A History of Ufa / Hans-Michael Bock, Michael Töteberg - DEFA : desires, possibilities and limitations / Claudia Sandberg -- Jahrgang '45 (Born in '45 [1966] 1990) / Horst Claus - Winter Adé (1988) / Martin Brady -- Film policy in the Third Reich / Julian Petley-- State legislation, censorship, and funding / Martin Loiperdinger -- German film festivals since 1945 / Caroline Moine -- Das kleine Fernsehspiel : model of a tv avant-garde / Claudia Sandberg -- Reinventing the vault : German film heritage institutions in the digital age / David Kleingers -- German film theory : the first 100 years / Tobias Nagl -- Siegfried Kracauer / Johannes von Moltke -- Béla Balázs / Erica Carter -- Frauen und film / Annette Brauerhoch -- Political cinema as oppositional practice : Weimar and beyond / Marc Silberman -- Queer German cinema / Dagmar Brunow -- Rosa von Praunheim / Randall Halle -- Feminism and women's cinema / Erica Carter and Claudia Sandberg -- New German cinema and history : the case of Alexander Kluge / Thomas Elsaesser -- DEFA in transition : untimely film modes for an impossible era / Annie Ring -- Politics of memory : DEFA as archive / Barton Byg and Victoria Rizo Lenshyn -- The German colonies on screen / Wolfgang Fuhrmann -- Franz Osten and the history of Indo-German film relations / Eleanor Halsall -- A short history of film exile / Christian Cargnelli -- Hollywood in Germany/Germany in Hollywood / Peter Krämer - Roland Emmerich / Peter Krämer -- Paternalism revisited : Turkish German traffic in cinema / Deniz Göktürk - Auf der anderen seite (The edge of heaven, 2007) / Barbara Mennel - Sibe Kekilli / Deniz Göktürk -- German film : Transnational / Randall Halle.
Summary:
This revised and updated edition of a comprehensive textbook introduces German film history from its beginnings to the present day, addressing key periods including early and silent cinema, Weimar cinema, Nazi cinema, the New German cinema, the Berlin School, and contemporary film, as well as addressing all the major movements, studios, stars, filmmakers and genres of German cinema in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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