Autor: Johannes von Moltke

This is the first comprehensive account of Germany’s most enduring film genre, the Heimatfilm, which has offered idyllic variations on the idea that ‚there is no place like home‘ since cinema’s early …

Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. In this book, Johannes von …

During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. …

Spätestens seit seiner ‚Theorie des Films‘ (1960), die sich der ‚Errettung der äußeren Wirklichkeit‘ verschrieben hatte, gilt Siegfried Kracauer als Realist. Seine Aufmerksamkeit für die ‚winzigen …

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Revitalizes Alexander Kluge’s classic 1979 film, showing it to be not just great storytelling but also an exploration of the poetic force of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Alexander Kl …

Artur Robison’s Warning Shadows – in German simply Schatten, shadows – premiered in 1923 to critical acclaim. This story of a fateful dinner party at which a flirtatious wife, her jealous husband, …

A view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema – now restored and widely available – as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film. Artur Robison’s …

Maren Ade’s tragicomedy Toni Erdmann, a 2016 Cannes sensation and Oscar nominee, is an internationally acclaimed classic of recent German cinema. By turns hilarious, cringeworthy, and …

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. Maren Ade’s tragicomedy Toni Erdmann, a 2016 Cann …

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 profo …