Synopses & Reviews
The German Cinema Book brings together film specialists from Europe and the United States to explore German film history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. This comprehensive collection reevaluates traditional areas of interest in German cinema (such as Weimar cinema, Nazi pro-paganda, New German Cinema) and complements this with a fresh look at hitherto neglected aspects, including early cinema, the cinema of the GDR, popular genre traditions, questions of national cinema and identity, and German film's transnational connections to Hollywood, as well as to exile and migrant cinemas. Corresponding to wider shifts in critical debates, the book places particular emphasis on genres and stars in the wider context of state and industry at home and abroad.
The collection comprises five thematic sections:
Popular Cinema
Stars
Institutional and Cultural Frameworks
Cultural Politics
Transnational Connections
Each section follows an internal chronological order enabling the reader to perceive the continuities of German cinema across different decades. They are accompanied by a substantial bibliography and resources section detailing print and online sources for films and related materials.
Broad-ranging and accessible, The German Cinema Book will appeal to a wide variety of readers, from students and scholars of German Studies, Film and Cultural Studies to the dedicated film enthusiast.
About the Author
Tim Bergfelder is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton. Erica Carter is Reader in German Studies at the University of Warwick. Deniz Göktürk is Reader in German and Film Studies at the University of Southampton, and Assistant Professor in German at the University of California, Berkeley.
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