The German Cinema Book

by Tim Bergfelder (Editor), Erica Carter (Editor), Deniz Göktürk (Editor), Claudia Sandberg (Editor)

Overview

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. Murbanau, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844575305
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/02/2020
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	7.42(w) x 9.79(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Tim Bergfelder is Professor of Film at the University of Southampton, UK.
Erica Carter is Professor of German and Film Studies at King's College London, UK and founding Chair of the German Screen Studies Network.
Deniz Göktürk is Professor of German Studies, Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Claudia Sandberg is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourbane, Australia.

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
(Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz Gokturk)

Section 1: Popular Cinema
(
Introduction: Tim Berfelder)
1.1 Evergreens: The Heimat Genre Johannes von Moltke
1.2 German Film Comedy Jan Christopher Horak
1.3 Extraterritorial Fantasies: Edgar Wallace and the German Crime Film Tim Bergfelder
1.4 Queer Traditions in German Cinema Robert Kiss

Section 2: Stars
(
Introduction: Erica Carter)
2.1 Siegfried - A German Film Star Anton Kaes
2.2 Marlene Dietrich - The Prodigal Daughter Erica Carter
2.3 Heinz Rohmann - The Archetypal German Stephen Lowry
2.4 Armin Muller-Stahl - From East Germany to the West Coast Claudia Fellmer
2.5 German Stars of the 1990s Malte Hagener

Section 3:
Institutions and Cultural Contexts
(
Introduction: Tim Bergfelder)
3.1 The Origins of Film Exhibition in Germany Joseph Garncarz
3.2 Early Cinema and Its Audiences Frank Kessler and Eva Warth
3.3 Studio System and Identity: UFA Hans-Michael Bock and Michael Tateberg
3.4 DEFA: State, Studio, Style, Identity Horst Claus
3.5 State Legislation, Censorship and Funding Martin Loiperdinger

Section 4: Cultural Politics
(
Introduction: Erica Carter and Tim Bergfelder)
4.1 Political Cinema as Oppositional Practice Marc Silberman
4.2 Film Policy in the Third Reich Julian Petley
4.3 The New German Cinema and History: The Case of Alexander Kluge Thomas Elsaesser
4.4 Ulrike Ottinger: Women Film-makers and the Avant-garde Ulrike Sieglohr
4.5 The Autorenfilm in Contemporary German Cinema Ian Garwood

Section 5: Transnational Connections
(
Introduction: Deniz Gokturk)
5.1 Cinema and Migration Deniz Gokturk
5.2 Transatlantic Careers: Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang Sabine Hake
5.3
In the Wilds of the German Imaginary: African Vistas Marie-Helene Gutberlet
5.4 Hollywood in Germany/Germany in Hollywood Peter Kramer

Bibliography