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 Bla Balzs. 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 Goekturk 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 Schunzel - 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 Mutter, unsere Vater - Jennifer Kapczynski The Lives of Others - Paul Cooke Part Two: Stars Introduction - Erica Carter 5. Asta Nielsen - Heide Schlupmann 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 Ruhmann: The Archetypal German - Stephen Lowry 10. Armin Muller-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 Gemunden 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 Toeteberg 22. DEFA. Desires, Possibilities and Limitations - Claudia Sandberg Spotlight: Jurgen Boettcher 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 Bela Balazs - 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 Goekturk 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 Kramer Spotlight: Roland Emmerich - Peter Kramer 39. Beyond Paternalism: Turkish-German Traffic in Cinema - Deniz Goekturk Spotlight: The Edge of Heaven - Barbara Mennel Spotlight: Sibel Kekilli - Deniz Goekturk 40. German Film: Transnational - Randall Halle Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
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