Introduction. Toward generic histories : film genre, genre theory, and German film studies / Jaimey Fisher -- Parallel modernities : from haunted screen to universal horror / Gerd Gemunden -- The essay film and its German variations / Nora M. Alter -- The limits of futurity: German science fiction film in the course of time / Lutz Koepnick -- The situation is hopeless, but not desperate: UFA's early sound film musicals / Eric Rentschler -- Resisting the war (film) : Wicki's masterpiece Die Brucke (1959) and its generic transformations / Jaimey Fisher -- Ironizing identity : the German crime genre and the Edgar Wallace production trend of the 1960s / Sascha Gerhards -- From Siodmak to Schlingensief : the return of history as horror / Kris Vander Lugt -- Producing adaptations : Bernd Eichinger, Christiane F., and German film history / Hester Baer -- Exceptional thrills : genrification, Dr. Mabuse, and Das Experiment / Steve Choe -- The Heimat film in the twenty-first century : negotiating the New German cinema to return to Papas Kino / Paul Cooke -- The romantic comedy and its other : representations of romance in German cinema since 1990 / Antje Ascheid -- Yearning for genre : the films of Dominik Graf / Marco Abel.
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