Generic Histories of German Cinema - Genre and Its Deviations

Offers a fresh approach to German film studies by tracing key genres -- including horror, the thriller, Heimat films, and war films -- over the course of German cinema history

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Introduction: Toward Generic Histories - Film Genre, Genre Theory, and German Film Studies
Parallel Modernities: From Haunted Screen to Universal Horror
The Essay Film and Its German Variations
The Limits of Futurity: German Science-Fiction Film over the Course of Time
The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Desperate: UFA's Early Sound Film Musicals
Resisting the War (Film): Wicki's "Masterpiece" Die Brücke and Its Generic Transformations
Ironizing Identity: The German Crime Genre and the Edgar Wallace Production Trend of the 1960s
From Siodmak to Schlingensief: The Return of History as Horror
Producing Adaptations: Bernd Eichinger, Christiane F., and German Film History
Exceptional Thrills: Genrification, Dr. Mabuse, and Das Experiment
The Heimat Film in the Twenty-First Century: Negotiating the New German Cinema to Return to Papas Kino
The Romantic Comedy and Its Other: Representations of Romance in German Cinema since 1990
Yearning for Genre: The Films of Dominik Graf
Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Info autore

Jaimey Fisher

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jaimey Fisher
• Con la collaborazione di: Jaimey Fisher (Editore), Jaimey (Customer) Fisher (Editore)
• Editore: Boydell & Brewer
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.10.2013
• EAN: 9781571135704
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-570-4
• Pagine: 334
• Dimensioni: 162 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Peso: 600 g
• Serie: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual; Screen Cultures: German Film a; Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual; Screen Cultures: German Film a
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto