The German Cinema Book

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Edited by Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter and Deniz Gokturk

British Film Institute

Due/Published February 2003, 288 pages, paper

ISBN 085170946X

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.

Contents

Introduction - Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz Göktürk

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 Rühmann - The Archetypal German - Stephen Lowry
2.4 Armin Müller-Stahl - From East Germany to the West Coast - ClaudiaFellmer
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 Töteberg
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 Bergfelder4.1 Political Cinema as Oppositional Practice - Marc Silberman4.2 Film Policy in the Third Reich - Julian Petley 4.3 The New German Cinema and History: The Case of Alexander Kluge - Thomas Elsaesser4.4 Ulrike Ottinger: Women Film-makers and the Avant-garde - Ulrike Sieglohr4.5 The Autorenfilm in Contemporary German Cinema - Ian Garwood Section 5: Transnational Connections
Introduction: - Deniz Gokturk
5.1 Cinema and Migration - Deniz Gökturk
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

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