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  • New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts

    A Transnational Art Cinema

    by Eric Rentschler, Barry Keith Grant ...
    Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
    Rediscovering a momentous cinema movement, its canonization, and its recasting through global discourse.The last of the so-called new waves in film, New German Cinema of the 1970s and early 1980s represents much more than a national phenomenon; it impacted and was influenced by films from around the world. Filmmakers such as the famous troika of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and Wim ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ministry of Illusion

    Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife

    by Eric Rentschler ...
    German cinema of the Third Reich, even a half-century after Hitler's demise, still provokes extreme reactions. "Never before and in no other country," observes director Wim Wenders, "have images and language been abused so unscrupulously as here, never before and nowhere else have they been debased so deeply as vehicles to transmit lies." More than a thousand German feature films that premiered ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Use and Abuse of Cinema

    German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present

    by Eric Rentschler ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar and postwall epochs and into the new millennium. These journeys afford rich panoramas and nuanced close-ups from a nation's production of fantasies and spectacles, traversing the different ways in ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • German Film & Literature

    by Eric Rentschler ...
    First Published in 1986. This collection of essays by an international team of scholars is the first sustained investigation in any language of the historical interactions between German film and literature. It is a book about adaptations and transformations, about why filmmakers adapt certain material at certain times. The major impetus at work is the desire to expand the field of adaptation ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Itoh's Ghost

    by Eric Rentschler ...
    ITOHS GHOSTManchuria 1945The suicide of a Japanese soldier obscures the terrible crimes committed there.Japan 1952 Seven years later Itoh returns. His ghost terrorizes anyone who remembers.Akiko, Itohs daughter, is kidnapped.A mysterious letter leads Itohs lover on a perilous journey to find him.Itohs enemies will track him down and kill him before he incriminates them.Can Itohs Ghost bring the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany

    by Valerie Weinstein ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    How party propagandists worked behind the scenes to create unspoken racist messages in the German culture—even in the most lighthearted of movies.Today many Germans look back fondly on 1930s film comedies, viewing them as a part of the Nazi era that was not tainted with antisemitism. Here, Valerie Weinstein scrutinizes these comic productions and demonstrates that film comedy, despite its innocent ... Read more

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  • Shell Shock Cinema

    Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War

    by Anton Kaes ...
    How war trauma haunted the films of Weimar GermanyShell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. In this exciting new book, Anton Kaes argues that masterworks such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The Nibelungen, and Metropolis, even though they do not ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema

    Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy

    by Christian Rogowski, John F Fetzer, Joseph Garncarz, Nancy Nenno, Ofer Ashkenazi, Philipp Stiasny, Richard W. McCormick, Veronika Fuechtner, Anjeana K. Hans, Chris Wahl0, Cynthia Walk1, Elizabeth Otto2, Jaimey Fisher3, Professor Jill Suzanne Smith4, Joel Westerdale5 ...
    Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But in recent decades, such reductive assessments have been challenged by developments in film theory and archival research that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Willing Seduction

    The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture

    by Barbara Kosta ...
    Series Book 8 - Film Europa
    Josef von Sternberg’s 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany’s first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood stardom and for initiating the mythic pairing of the Austrian-born American director von Sternberg with the star performer Dietrich ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Framing the Fifties

    Cinema in a Divided Germany

    Edited by John Davidson, Sabine Hake ...
    Series Book 4 - Film Europa
    The demise of the New German Cinema and the return of popular cinema since the 1990s have led to a renewed interest in the postwar years and the complicated relationship between East and West German cinema in particular. A survey of the 1950s, as offered here for the first time, is therefore long overdue. Moving beyond the contempt for "Papa's Kino" and the nostalgia for the fifties found in much ... Read more

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  • Rubble Films

    German Cinema In Shadow Of 3Rd Reich

    by Robert Shandley ...
    At the end of World War II, Germany was a broken nation. Split in two and occupied by the victorious Allies, it would have to be rebuilt, literally, from the rubble of its own defeat. Volumes of books have been published chronicling its structural and economic rebirth; this unique study reveals how Germany rebuilt itself culturally.Rubble Films is a close look at German cinema in the immediate ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Dismantling the Dream Factory

    Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language

    by Hester Baer ...
    Series Book 9 - Film Europa
    The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer reassesses this period, looking in particular at how the attempt to ‘dismantle the dream factory’ of Nazi entertainment cinema resulted in a new ... Read more

    $18.99 USD