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Werner Herzog is renowned for pushing the boundaries of conventional cinema, especially those between the fictional and the factual, the fantastic and the real. The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic …

A Companion to Werner Herzog showcases over two dozen original scholarly essays examining nearly five decades of filmmaking by one of the most acclaimed and innovative figures in world cinema. * Firs …

A Companion to Werner Herzog showcases over two dozen original scholarly essays examining nearly five decades of filmmaking by one of the most acclaimed and innovative figures in world cinema. * Firs …

Analyzes a diverse body of films and investigates the renaissance that has taken place in German cinema since the turn of the twenty-first century.While difficult questions of history, culture, and p …

Offers not only a close reading but also a film-historical contextualization of Phoenix, constituting the most significant and thorough study of Petzold’s film to date. Christian Petzold’s Phoenix (2 …

Berlin School Glossary is the first major publication to mark the increasing international importance of a group of contemporary German and Austrian filmmakers initially known by the name the Berlin …

Berlin School Glossary is the first major publication to mark the increasing international importance of a group of contemporary German and Austrian filmmakers initially known by the name the Berlin …

Groundbreaking analyses of the vast archive of newly digitized and released outtakes from Lanzmann s masterwork.In The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann s Shoah and Its Outtakes, editors Eri …

Ulrich Seidl (*1952) hat einen nahezu unvergleichlichen Stil, der bis zu seinem ersten Film ‚Einsvierzig‘ (1980) zurückreicht. In der Folgezeit drehte Seidl über zwei Dutzend Filme und wurde zu einem …

Ulrich Seidl (*1952) hat einen nahezu unvergleichlichen Stil, der bis zu seinem ersten Film ‚Einsvierzig‘ (1980) zurückreicht. In der Folgezeit drehte Seidl über zwei Dutzend Filme und wurde zu einem …

New essays by prominent scholars in German and Holocaust Studies exploring the boundaries and confluences between the fields and examining new transnational approaches to the Holocaust. In studies of …

Features a special section on the Hungarian German Jewish writer and theater director George Tabori and a Forum section on the 2016 film A German Life. Nexus is the official publication of the bienni …

Ein Film, ein Band – die ‚Film | Lektüren‘ nehmen sich Zeit und Raum. Band 2 ist mit Christian Petzolds ‚Yella‘ (2007) einem der vielschichtigsten und spannendsten deutschen Filme der 2000er Jahre ge …

Germany s most important filmmaking movement in conversation with its peers across the globe. The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art-Cinema came about in light of the Museum o …

This study investigates six German Jewish writers‘ negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust East Germany. This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist i …

Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology. The work of the groundbreaking writers and art …

Re-examines German cinema’s representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath. The recent ‚discovery‘ of German wartime suffering has had a particularly profound …

Features a new section on the institutional settings of German Jewish Studies, a Film Forum on Shahar Rozen’s 1998 documentary Liebe Perla, and interviews with Paul Mendes-Flohr and Barbara Honigmann …

Offers not only a close reading but also a film-historical contextualization of Phoenix, constituting the most significant and thorough study of Petzold’s film to date.Christian Petzold’s Phoenix (20 …

Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release in 1978. However, it was also highly controversial and came to be seen as a powerful statement on t …

Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release in 1978. However, it was also highly controversial and came to be seen as a powerful statement on t …

Lessons and Legacies XIII: New Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust is an edited collection of thirteen original essays that reflect current research on the Holocaust in a range of di …