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Gerd Gemunden
With six Academy Awards, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish emigre from Central Europe…
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Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine…
Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic’s best lists. Though often allied with mainstream figures and genre frameworks, Martel…
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Few movie stars have meant as many things to as many different audiences as the iconic Marlene Dietrich. Dietrich has long been a flashpoint in Germany’s struggles over its cultural…
Professor Gerd Gemunden (Series Editor)
The first in-depth analysis of Maren Ade’s acclaimed contemporary classic, a generational tug-of-war about the meaning of life, work, and death.
For over three hundred years, the Indian peoples of North America have attracted the interest of diverse segments of German society - missionaries, writers, playwrights, anthropologists, filmmakers, non-professional hobbyists and…
Gerd Gem'unden (Dartmouth College)
Die hermeneutische Wende untersucht die Bedeutung von Schleiermachers Hermeneutik fur die Gebiete der Padagogik, Medizin und Rechtswissenschaft. Anhand des Umgangs mit Sprachlosigkeit in literarischen und nicht-literarischen franzosischen, englischen und deutschen…
Focusing on stardom during the 1920s, this title reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia…
This collection of papers from two workshops is concerned with anthropological aspects of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean religions, ranging from the ‘primary’ religions of the archaic period and their…
