German Culture Through Film

by Reimer, Robert C.; Zachau, Reinhard; Sinka, Margit M.

• ISBN13: 9781585101023
• ISBN10: 1585101028
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-01
• Publisher: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co.

Summary

German Culture through Film: An Introduction to German Cinema and its companion, Arbeitsbuch zu German Culture through Film, provide a flexible means of teaching undergraduate courses in German film. The primary book covers 31 German films in English, and a German language companion volume covers 14 films with an emphasis on German language skills, so a single course using the same films can serve multiple purposes. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Robert C. Reimer (PhD. Kansas) is Professor of German and Director of the Minor in Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He teaches language and film courses, including German, European, and American cinema. He has written and published extensively on German films, especially of the Nazi period. Reinhard Zachau (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) is Professor of German at the University of the South. His research includes the literature of Weimar Germany, exile literature, East German literature, and on post-1945 West German culture and literature. For the Consortium of German in the Southeast, he organizes and frequently directs "Summer in Sewanee,"for high school teachers and advanced undergraduates at the University of the South. Margit M. Sinka (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) is Professor of German and Head of the German Section at Clemson University. She publishes on medieval German epics, medieval mysticism, 19th century literature, genre studies), pedagogy, and other topics. She has been the post-secondary Southeast Representative on the Executive Council of the American Association of German Teachers.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari	p. 7
Nosferatu, eine Sinfonie des Grauens	p. 15
Berlin: die Sinfonie der Grossstadt	p. 25
Der blaue Engel	p. 33
M	p. 43
Kuhle Wampe oder wem gehort die Welt	p. 51
Triumph des Willens	p. 59
Jud Suss	p. 67
Die Morder sind unter uns	p. 75
Berlin - Ecke Schonhauser	p. 87
Hunde wollt ihr ewig leben?	p. 97
Die Brucke	p. 105
Agurire, Der Zorn Gottes	p. 111
Die Legende von Paul und Paula	p. 119
Angst essen Seele auf	p. 125
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum	p. 133
Die Ehe der Maria Braun	p. 141
Die Blechtrommel	p. 149
Die bleierne Zeit	p. 159
Das Boot	p. 167
Der Himmel uber Berlin	p. 175
Das schreckliche Madchen	p. 181
Keiner liebt mich	p. 187
Das Versprechen	p. 195
Rossini, oder die morderische Frage, wer mit wem schlief	p. 203
Sonnenallee	p. 209
Lola rennt	p. 217
Vergiss Amerika	p. 225
Bella Martha	p. 233
Nirgendwo in Afrika	p. 239
Good Bye, Lenin!	p. 249
Photo Credits	p. 255
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