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Jaimey Fisher
Frames Petzold’s cinema at the intersection of international art cinema and sophisticated genre cinema.
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During Hitler’s reign, Nazis deliberately developed and exploited a youthful image and used youth to define their political and social hierarchies. This title analyzes a variety of media, including literature…
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Offers a fresh approach to German film studies by tracing key genres – including horror, the thriller, Heimat films, and war films – over the course of German cinema history
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Deploys theories of space, mobility, and affect to investigate how war films realize their political projects. Analysing films across the decades, from the 1910s to 2000s, the book argues that…
Analyses how the HBO television series Treme treads new ground by engaging with historical events and their traumatic aftermaths. Instead of building up to a devastating occurrence, David Simon’s drama…
Presents contributions from prominent German film studies scholars to examine the current politically charged and provocative moment in German filmmaking historically, ideologically, and formally as another break with cinematic convention.
Germany’s most important filmmaking movement in conversation with its peers across the globe.
The retirement of the distinguished philosopher Jurgen Habermas from his chair at the University of Frankfurt signalled an important caesura in the history of Critical Theory: the transition from the…
The first book to document how one of Germany's best-known directors thinking about his work has evolved over the course of a quarter of a century, spanning his days as…
Essays on the Wilhelm Meister novels, Faust, Goethe’s early plays, Schiller’s Rauber and on Goethe’s thought in relation to current debates on cosmopolitanism and postcoloniality.
