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The German Cinema Book

Tim Bergfelder editor Claudia Sandberg editor Erica Carter editor Deniz Göktürk editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:20th Feb '20

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The revised and updated edition of this essential introduction addresses the whole history of cinema in Germany.

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 Béla Balázs. The volume provides a methodological template for the study of a national cinema in a transnational horizon.

[T]his book will be a great help in deepening the history of German film and its present. * FILMBLATT (Bloomsbury Translation). *

ISBN: 9781844575305

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1344g

624 pages

2nd edition