Amsterdam University Press, 1996, p.353 German cinema is best known for its art cinema and its long line of outstanding individual directors. The double spotlight on these two subject has only deepened the obscurity surrounding the popular cinema. German Cinema performs a kind of archaeology on a period largely overlooked: the first two decades of German cinema. This collection...
Faber and Faber, 2002, p.303 Most of what we've heard about Werner Herzog is untrue. The sheer number of false rumors and downright lies disseminated about the man and his films is truly astonishing. Yet Herzog's body of work is one of the most important in postwar European cinema. His international breakthrough came in 1973 with Aguirre, The Wrath of God, in which Klaus Kinski...
Amsterdam University Press, 1996, p.341 Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the most prominent and important authors of post-war European cinema. Thomas Elsaesser is the first to write a thoroughly analytical study of his work. He stresses the importance of a closer understanding of Fassbinder's career through a re-reading of his films as textual entities. Approaching the work...
Amsterdam University Press 2005, p. 133 Ernst Lubitsch, the German filmmaker who left Berlin for Hollywood in the 1920s, is best remembered today for the famous "Lubitsch touch" in such masterpieces as Ninotchka, which featured Greta Garbo's first-ever screen smile, and Heaven Can Wait. Kristin Thompson's study analyzes Lubitsch's earlier silent films of 1918 to 1927 in order...
ABC CLIO p. 350 like no other volume of its kind, Pop Culture Germany! captures the breadth and vitality of popular culture in modern Germany, exploring both familiar and lesser-known aspects of German art, entertainment, television, music, and film. Written by expert contributors who are rooted in German language and culture, the book focuses on German popular culture since...
Amsterdam University Press 2013, p. 137 In 1923, the film director Victor Seastrom (né Sjöström), then Sweden’s most renowned filmmaker, was recruited to Hollywood by Goldwyn Pictures, where he made eight silent pictures and one talkie in seven years, among them a 1926 version of The Scarlet Letter. What elements of Swedish cinema did he bring with him to the States, and how...
Scarecrow Press, 2008. — 485 p. German film is diverse and multi-faceted; its history includes five distinct German governments (Wilhelmine Germany, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German Democratic Republic), two national industries (Germany and Austria), and a myriad of styles and production methods. Paradoxically, the political...
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2004. — 323 p. — ISBN: 0-520-22895-2. When New German cinema directors like R. W. Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity-national, political, personal, and sexual-music and film style played crucial roles. Most studies of the celebrated film movement, however, have sidestepped...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 196 p. This book demonstrates how the two adversaries of the Cold War, West Germany and East Germany, endeavored to create two distinct and unique German identities. In their endeavor to claim legitimacy, the German cinematic representation of the American West became an important cultural weapon of mass dissemination during the Cold War. Pawel Goral...
New York, Rochester: Camden House, 2016. — 322 p. Werner Herzog (b. 1942) is perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but his films have never been read in the context of German cultural history. And while there is a surfeit of film reviews, interviews, and scholarly articles on Herzog and his work, there are very few books devoted to his films, and none addressing his...
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003. — 332 p. — ISBN 90-5356-598-1, ISBN 90-5356-597-3. This first book-length study shows how Germany tried to reconcile the horrendous experiences of the First World War through the films made in 1919-1933. Drawing on the analysis of twenty-five such films, and covering a wide range of documentaries as well as feature films on the...
Columbia University Press, 2015. — 371 p. Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I, he follows researchers, teachers, and intellectuals as they negotiated the fascinating, at...
Hambledon Continuum, 2007. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84725-000-1. Hitler: Image-Building Nazi Propaganda The German Film Industry to 1918 Weimar Cinema The German Film Industry 1933-1945 The " Kampfzeit " Films, 1933 Leni Riefenstahl s " Triumph of the Will " A " Judenfrei " Cinema, 1934-1938 Two German Comedies ( 1939 ) The Rothschilds and " Jud Suss " ' Der ewige Jude' ( 1930 )...
Camden House, 2004. — 306 p. — ISBN: 1-571113-283 — X. History, Utopia, and the Social Construction of Happiness : The Historical Musical Mapping German Identity : The Foreign Adventure Film The Celluloid War : The Home-Front Film Discontented Domesticity : The Melodrama The Forbidden Desires of Everyday Life : The Problem Film Epilogue
University of California Press, 1999. — 451 p. — ISBN: 9780520220690. Universum-Film AG — best known by its signature logo, Ufa — was once the largest film company in Europe. Founded by the German High Command as a propaganda medium during World War I and always central to Germany's nationalistic big-business interests, Ufa was also home to the most innovative talents of the...
University of Minnesota Press, 1994. — 264 p. — ISBN: 9780816624553. *Television, Tabloids, and Tears * was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "I am Biberkopf," Rainer Werner Fassbinder declared,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 624 p. — (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors ). This collection of critical essays offers an unrivalled and up-to-the-minute assessment of the prolific and resilient life and vision of one of cinema’s greatest auteurs. The first edited collection of essays on Fritz Lang’s body of work in over thirty years A comprehensive assessment of one of...
New York: Methuen drama, Bloomsbury, 2003 — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0413725006; ISBN13: 978-0413725004. This volume gathers together, for the first time in English translation, Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast technologies that revolutionised arts and communication in the early part of the twentieth century. This book includes all of Brecht's theoretical writing...
Article. Published in "Images" — 2008 — Volume 2, Issue 1 — pp. 86–109. DOI: 10.1163/187180008X408618 The essay explores the deep and pervasive influence of Walter Benjamin in Wim Wenders's Der Himmel über Berlin (The Sky over Berlin under the English title Wings of Desire). The essay draws its title from the Benjaminean storyteller named “Homer” in the film, whose search for...
Amsterdam University Press, 2012. — 450 p. Alexander Kluge is best known as a founding member of the New German Cinema. His work, however, spans a diverse range of fields and, over the last fifty years, he has been active as a filmmaker, writer and television producer. This book - the first of its kind in English - comprises a wide selection of texts, including articles and...