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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

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  • The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts

    A Transnational Art Cinema

    Edited by Jaimey Fisher, Marco Abel ...
    Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
    Germany's most important filmmaking movement in conversation with its peers across the globe.The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art-Cinema came about in light of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)'s 2013 major exhibition of works by contemporary German directors associated with the so-called Berlin School, perhaps Germany's most important contemporary filmmaking movement. ... Read more

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  • Christian Petzold

    Interviews

    Edited by Marco Abel, Aylin Bademsoy, Jaimey Fisher ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is the best-known filmmaker associated with the “Berlin School” of postunification German cinema. Identifying as an intellectual, Petzold self-consciously approaches his work for both the big and the small screen by weaving critical reflection on the very conditions of contemporary filmmaking into his approach. Archeologically reconstructing genre filmmaking in a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • More in Time

    A Tribute to Ted Kooser

    Edited by Jessica Poli, Marco Abel, Timothy Schaffert ...
    Nebraska Book Award, Special Poetry recognitionMore in Time is a celebration and tribute to Ted Kooser, two-time U.S. Poet Laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Presidential Professor of the University of Nebraska. Through personal reflections, essays, and creative works both inspired by and dedicated to Kooser, this collection shines a light on the many ways the midwestern poet ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School

    by Marco Abel ...
    The contemporary German directors collectively known as the "Berlin School" constitute the most significant filmmaking movement to come out of Germany since the New German Cinema of the 1970s, not least because their films mark the emergence of a new film language. The Berlin School filmmakers, including Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, Angela Schanelec, Christoph Hochhäusler, Ulrich Köhler, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Rammstein on Fire

    New Perspectives on the Music and Performances

    Edited by John T. Littlejohn, Michael T. Putnam ...
    This volume contains 13 original essays exploring Rammstein's stage performance and recorded works from multiple academic perspectives. Topics range from Rammstein's connection with 19th century German literature and their East German heritage to cannibalism and the supernatural. The panoramic view of approaches to Rammstein's music and performance goes beneath the surface and provides fan and ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A Companion to German Cinema

    Edited by Terri Ginsberg, Andrea Mensch ...
    Series Book 4 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to German CinemaA Companion to German Cinema regards the shifting terrain of German filmmaking and film studies against their larger social contexts with twenty-two newly commissioned essays by well-established and younger scholars in the field. While several of these focus on classic topics such as Weimar cinema, Fifties cinema, New German Cinema and its legacy, and Holocaust film, ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • Postwall German Cinema

    History, Film History and Cinephilia

    by Mattias Frey ...
    Series Book 14 - Film Europa
    Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a proliferation of German historical films. These productions have earned prestigious awards and succeeded at box offices both at home and abroad, where they count among the most popular German films of all time. Recently, however, the country’s cinematic take on history has seen a significant new development: the radical style, content, and ... Read more

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  • 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