This comprehensively revised, updated and significantly extended edition introduces German film history from its beginnings to the present day, covering key periods and movements including early and silent cinema, Weimar cinema, Nazi cinema, the New German Cinema, the Berlin School, the cinema of migration, and moving images in the digital era. Contributions by leading international scholars are grouped into sections that focus on genre; stars; authorship; film production, distribution and exhibition; theory and politics, including women's and queer cinema; and transnational connections. Spotlight articles within each section offer key case studies, including of individual films that illuminate larger histories (Heimat, Downfall, The Lives of Others, The Edge of Heaven and many more); stars from Ossi Oswalda and Hans Albers, to Hanna Schygulla and Nina Hoss; directors including F.W. Murnau, Walter Ruttmann, Wim Wenders and Helke Sander; and film theorists including Siegfried Kracauer and Béla Balázs. The volume provides a methodological template for the study of a national cinema in a transnational horizon.
Acknowledgments
General Introduction - Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz Göktürk and Claudia Sandberg
Part One: Genre
Introduction - Tim Bergfelder
1. Evergreens: The Heimat Genre - Johannes von Moltke
Spotlight: Gloria - Joseph Garncarz
Heimat - Johannes von Moltke
Irgendwo in Berlin - Horst Claus
DEFA Indianerfilme - Jon Raundalen
2. German Film Comedy - Jan-Christopher Horak
Spotlight: Reinhold Schünzel - Christian Rogowski
Kurt Hoffmann - Chris Wahl
Michael 'Bully' Herbig - Tim Bergfelder
3. Notes on the German Crime Film - Tim Bergfelder
Spotlight: M - Todd Herzog
4. Why We fight (about war films) - Jennifer Kapczynski
Spotlight: Downfall - Paul Cooke
Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter - Jennifer Kapczynski
The Lives of Others - Paul Cooke
Part Two: Stars
Introduction - Erica Carter
5. Asta Nielsen - Heide Schlüpmann
Spotlight: Afgrunden - Claire Jesson
Ossi Oswalda - Barbara Ottmann
6. Siegfried - A German Film Star - Anton Kaes
7. Exotic stars under Nazism - Antje Ascheid
Spotlight: Hans Albers - Stephen Lowry
8. Transnational stars: Marlene Dietrich and Hildegard Knef - Erica Carter
9. Heinz Rühmann: The Archetypal German - Stephen Lowry
10. Armin Müller-Stahl - Claudia Fellmer and Jon Raundalen
11. German Stars since Reunification - Malte Hagener
Spotlight: Hanna Schygulla - Ulrike Sieglohr
Nina Hoss - Marco Abel
Part Three: Authorship
Introduction - Claudia Sandberg and Erica Carter
12. Transatlantic Careers: Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang - Sabine Hake
Spotlight: Murnau - Nicholas Baer
13. Authorship under National Socialism - Eric Rentschler
Spotlight: Walter Ruttmann - Michael Cowan
14. Looking for Fassbinder: Denationalizing Authorship - Paul Cooke
Spotlight: Heiner Carow - Barton Byg
15. Two Women Filmmakers: Ulrike Ottinger and Angela Schanelec - Ulrike Sieglohr
Spotlight: Helke Sander - Erica Carter
16. Constructing Authorship: Werner Herzog is his films - Brad Prager
Spotlight: Wim Wenders - Gerd Gemünden
17. Fatih Akin: Global Auteur - Barbara Mennel
18. The Berlin School - Marco Abel
Part Four: Film Production and Circulation: Institutions and Sites
Introduction - Tim Bergfelder
19. The Origins of Film Exhibition - Joseph Garncarz
20. Early Cinema and its Audiences - Frank Kessler and Eva Warth
21. A History of Ufa - Hans-Michael Bock, Michael Töteberg
22. DEFA. Desires, Possibilities and Limitations - Claudia Sandberg
Spotlight: Jürgen Böttcher and Jahrgang 45 - Horst Claus
Helke Misselwitz - Martin Brady
23. Film Policy in the Third Reich - Julian Petley
24. State Legislation and Censorship - Martin Loiperdinger
25. German Film Festivals since 1945 - Caroline Moine
26. Das kleine Fernsehspiel - Model of a Fernseh-Avantgarde - Claudia Sandberg
27. Reinventing the Vault. German Film Heritage Institutions in the Digital Age - David Kleingers
Part Five: Theory, Memory, Counter-Cinema
Introduction - Tim Bergfelder and Erica Carter
28. German Film Theory: The First 100 Years - Tobias Nagl
Spotlight: Siegfried Kracauer - Johannes von Moltke
Béla Balázs - Erica Carter
Frauen und Film - Annette Brauerhoch
29. Political Cinema as Oppositional Practice - Marc Silberman
30. Queer Cinema - Dagmar Brunow
Spotlight: Rosa von Praunheim - Randall Halle
31. Feminism and Women's Cinema - Erica Carter and Claudia Sandberg
32. New German Cinema and History - Thomas Elsaesser
33. DEFA in Transition: Untimely Film Modes for an Impossible Era - Annie Ring
34. Politics of Memory: DEFA as Archive - Barton Byg and Victoria Rizo-Lenshyn
Part Six: Transnational Connections
Introduction - Deniz Göktürk
35. The German Colonies on Screen - Wolfgang Fuhrmann
36. Franz Osten and Indo-German Film Relations - Eleanor Halsall
37. A Short History of Film Exile - Christian Cargnelli
38. Hollywood in Germany/Germany in Hollywood - Peter Krämer
Spotlight: Roland Emmerich - Peter Krämer
39. Beyond Paternalism: Turkish-German Traffic in Cinema - Deniz Göktürk
Spotlight: The Edge of Heaven - Barbara Mennel
Spotlight: Sibel Kekilli - Deniz Göktürk
40. German Film: Transnational - Randall Halle
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
