German Cinema - Texts in Context

In the history of German cinema, film directors have developed unique visual and narrative responses to the anxieties and excesses of their own times and those of Germany's past. German Cinema is the first English-language volume to provide a comprehensive historical overview of German film from the silent era to the present, as well as close readings of individual films.

About the author

Marc Silberman is the author of Heiner Muller: Forschungsberichte zur DDR--Literatur (Rodopi, 1980) and Literature of the Working World: A Study of the Industrial Novel in East Germany (H. Lang, 1976). A professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University.

Summary

This text presents the history of the German cinema through close readings of films representing five major periods: Weimar cinema, cinema in the Third Reich, postwar cinema, East German cinema, and the New German cinema.

Product details

• Authors: Marc Silberman
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1995
• EAN: 9780814325605
• ISBN: 978-0-8143-2560-5
• No. of pages: 342
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 496 g
• Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series; Contemporary Film and Televisi
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV