A dynamic, event-centered exploration of the hundred-year history of German-language film.
This dynamic, event-centered anthology offers a new understanding of the hundred-year history of German-language film, from the earliest days of the Kintopp to contemporary productions like The Lives of Others. Eachof the more than eighty essays takes a key date as its starting point and explores its significance for German film history, pursuing its relationship with its social, political, and aesthetic moment. While the essays offer ampletemporal and topical spread, this book emphasizes the juxtaposition of famous and unknown stories, granting attention to a wide range of cinematic events. Brief section introductions provide a larger historical and film-historicalframework that illuminates the essays within it, offering both scholars and the general reader a setting for the individual texts and figures under investigation. Cross-references to other essays in the book are included at the close of each entry, encouraging readers not only to pursue familiar trajectories in the development of German film, but also to trace particular figures and motifs across genres and historical periods. Together, the contributionsoffer a new view of the multiple, intersecting narratives that make up German-language cinema. The constellation that is thus established challenges unidirectional narratives of German film history and charts new ways of thinkingabout film historiography more broadly.
Jennifer Kapczynski is Associate Professor of German at Washington University, St. Louis, and Michael Richardson is Associate Professor of German at Ithaca College.
Baer, Hester: - HESTER BAER is Professor of German Studies and an affiliate in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland.
Cooke -. See C80107, Paul: - Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds.
Ganeva, Mila: - MILA GANEVA is Department Chair and Professor of German at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Gemünden, Gerd: - Gerd Gemünden is Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College; Professor of Film and Media Studies; German Studies; and Comparative Literature. He is co-series editor of German Film Classics and the larger series Screen Cultures.
Langston, Richard: - Richard Langston is Professor of German at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
McGlothlin, Erin: - Erin McGlothlin is assistant professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis.
Powell, Larson: - Larson Powell is Curator's Professor of Film Studies at University of Missouri, Kansas City.
Prager, Brad: - BRAD PRAGER is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Simpson, Patricia Anne: - PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
William, Jennifer Marston: - JENNIFER MARSTON WILLIAM is Professor of German at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Dimensions of Storytelling (CH, 2019).
