The German Cinema Book

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 Bela Balazs. The volume provides a methodological template for the study of a national cinema in a transnational horizon.>

About the author

Tim Bergfelder is Professor of Film at the University of Southampton, UK. His many books include Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema (2007), Concise Cinegraph: the Encyclopedia of German Cinema (2006), Stars and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema (2018), and The German Cinema Book 2nd Edition (2020). ERICA CARTER is Professor of Film Studies and German at King's College, London. Her publications include How German is She? Postwar West German Reconstruction and the Consuming Woman (University of Michigan Press, 1997).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 Melbourne, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Bergfelder, Tim (University of Southampton Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz Gkturk, San
• Assisted by: Tim Bergfelder (Editor), Tim (University of Southampton Bergfelder (Editor), Bergfelder Tim (Editor), Erica Carter (Editor), Erica (King's College London Carter (Editor), Carter Erica (Editor), Deniz (University of California Goekturk (Editor), Deniz Gokturk (Editor), Deniz Göktürk (Editor), Claudia Sandberg (Editor), Claudia (University of Melbourne Sandberg (Editor)
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2019
• EAN: 9781844575305
• ISBN: 978-1-84457-530-5
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 188 mm x 246 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Germany, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General