The German Cinema Book

by Bergfelder, Tim; Carter, Erica; Gokturk, Deniz

• ISBN13: 9780851709468
• ISBN10: 085170946X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-30
• Publisher: British Film Inst

Summary

This work brings together film specialists from Europe and the United States to explore German film history from the late 19th to the early 21st century. It re-evaluates traditional areas of interest in German cinema, and looks at neglected aspects, including early cinema.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
PART ONE: POPULAR CINEMA	13	(44)
Introduction	15	(3)
Tim Bergfelder
Evergreens: The Heimat Genre	18	(11)
Johannes von Moltke
German Film Comedy	29	(10)
Jan-Christopher Horak
Extraterritorial Fantasies: Edgar Wallace and the German Crime Film	39	(9)
Tim Bergfelder
Queer Traditions in German Cinema	48	(9)
Robert Kiss
PART TWO: STARS	57	(50)
Introduction	59	(4)
Erica Carter
Siegfried - A German Film Star Performing the Nation in Lang's Nibelungen Film	63	(8)
Anton Kaes
Marlene Dietrich - The Prodigal Daughter	71	(10)
Erica Carter
Heinz Ruhmann - The Archetypal German	81	(9)
Stephen Lowry
Armin Mueller-Stahl - From East Germany to the West Coast	90	(8)
Claudia Fellmer
German Stars of the 1990s	98	(9)
Malte Hagener
PART THREE: INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS	107	(52)
Introduction	109	(3)
Tim Bergfelder
The Origins of Film Exhibition in Germany	112	(9)
Joseph Garncarz
Early Cinema and its Audiences	121	(8)
Frank Kessler
Eva Warth
A History of Ufa	129	(10)
Hans-Michael Bock
Michael Toteberg
DEFA - State, Studio, Style, Identity	139	(9)
Horst Claus
State Legislation, Censorship and Funding	148	(11)
Martin Loiperdinger
PART FOUR: CULTURAL POLITICS	159	(52)
Introduction	161	(4)
Tim Bergfelder
Erica Carter
Political Cinema as Oppositional Practice: Weimar and Beyond	165	(8)
Marc Silberman
Film Policy in the Third Reich	173	(9)
Julian Petley
New German Cinema and History: The Case of Alexander Kluge	182	(10)
Thomas Elsaesser
Women Film-Makers, the Avant-Garde and the Case of Ulrike Ottinger	192	(10)
Ulrike Sieglohr
The Autorenfilm in Contemporary German Cinema	202	(9)
Ian Garwood
PART FIVE: TRANSNATIONAL CONNECTIONS	211	(46)
Introduction	213	(4)
Deniz Gokturk
Transatlantic Careers: Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang	217	(10)
Sabine Hake
Hollywood in Germany/Germany in Hollywood	227	(11)
Peter Kramer
In the Wilds of the German Imaginary: African Vistas	238	(10)
Marie-Helene Gutberlet
Beyond Paternalism: Turkish German Traffic in Cinema	248	(9)
Deniz Gokturk
Select Bibliography and Resources	257	(20)
Index	277