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  • Andreas Dresen

    Edited by Julian Preece, Nick Hodgin ...
    Andreas Dresen is a leading European filmmaker whose œuvre now spans three decades and includes some of the most acclaimed German films of recent times, such as Halbe Treppe (Grill Point, 2002), Sommer vorm Balkon (Summer in Berlin, 2005) and Halt auf freier Strecke (Stopped on Track, 2011). The essays collected in this volume by leading scholars from the USA, UK and Ireland place him in the ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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    Edited by Susan Ingram ...
    One of the most dynamic capital cities of the twenty-first century, Berlin also has one of the most tumultuous modern histories. A city that came of age, in many senses, with the cinema, it has been captured on film during periods of exurberance, devastation, division and reconstruction. World Film Locations: Berlin offers a broad overview of these varied cinematic representations.Covering an ... Read more

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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

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  • Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany

    by Valerie Weinstein ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    How party propagandists worked behind the scenes to create unspoken racist messages in the German culture—even in the most lighthearted of movies.Today many Germans look back fondly on 1930s film comedies, viewing them as a part of the Nazi era that was not tainted with antisemitism. Here, Valerie Weinstein scrutinizes these comic productions and demonstrates that film comedy, despite its innocent ... Read more

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  • Shell Shock Cinema

    Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War

    by Anton Kaes ...
    How war trauma haunted the films of Weimar GermanyShell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. In this exciting new book, Anton Kaes argues that masterworks such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The Nibelungen, and Metropolis, even though they do not ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • German National Cinema

    by Sabine Hake ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    German National Cinema is the first comprehensive history of German film from its origins to the present. In this new edition, Sabine Hake discusses film-making in economic, political, social, and cultural terms, and considers the contribution of Germany's most popular films to changing definitions of genre, authorship, and film form.The book traces the central role of cinema in the nation’s ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

    $170.99 CAD

  • Weimar Cinema and After

    Germany's Historical Imaginary

    by Thomas Elsaesser ...
    German cinema of the 1920s is still regarded as one of the 'golden ages' of world cinema. Films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dr Mabuse the Gambler, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Pandora's Box and The Blue Angel have long been canonised as classics, but they are also among the key films defining an image of Germany as a nation uneasy with itself. The work of directors like Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau ... Read more

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  • Women in Weimar Fashion

    Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933

    by Mila Ganeva ...
    In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media -- film, magazines, advertising, photography, and popular literature -- but also emerged as a powerful medium for women's self-expression. Female writers and journalists, including Helen Grund, Irmgard Keun, Vicki Baum, Elsa Maria Bug, and numerous others engaged in a challenging, self-reflective commentary on ... Read more

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