A Critical History of German Film

By (author) Professor Stephen Brockmann

Publication date:

01 November 2010

Length of book:

532 pages

Publisher

Camden House

ISBN-13: 9781787443983

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

A history of German film dealing with individual films as works of art has long been needed. Existing histories tend to treat cinema as an economic rather than an aesthetic phenomenon; earlier surveys that do engage with individual films do not include films of recent decades. This book treats representative films from the beginnings of German film to the present. Providing historical context through an introduction and interchapters preceding the treatments of each era's films, the volume is suitable for semester- or year-long survey courses and for anyone with an interest in German cinema.

The films: The Student of Prague - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - The Last Laugh - Metropolis - The Blue Angel - M - Triumph of the Will - The Great Love - The Murderers Are among Us - Sun Seekers - Trace of Stones - The Legend of Paul and Paula - Solo Sunny - The Bridge - Young Törless - Aguirre, The Wrath of God - Germany in Autumn - The Marriage of Maria Braun - The Tin Drum - Marianne and Juliane - Wings of Desire - Maybe, Maybe Not - Rossini - Run Lola Run - Good Bye Lenin! - Head On - The Lives of Others

Stephen Brockmann is Professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University and past President of the German Studies Assocation.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Critical Film History and German Studies
Early German Film History 1895-1918: Historical Overview
Der Student von Prag (1913) and Learning to Look
Weimar Cinema 1919-1933: Historical Overview
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) or Film as Hypnosis
Der letzte Mann (1924) or Learning to Move
Metropolis (1927) or Technology and Sex
Der blaue Engel (1927) and Learning to Talk
M (1931) or Sound and Terror
Nazi Cinema 1933-1945: Historical Overview
Triumph des Willens: (1935): Documentary and Propaganda
Die große Liebe (1942) or Love and War
German Cinema at the Zero Hour 1945-1949: Historical Overview
Die Mörder sind unter uns: (1946): The Rubble Film
Postwar East German Cinema 1949-1989: Historical Overview
Sonnensucher (1958) or Searching for the Socialist Sun
Spur der Steine (1966) or Traces of Repression
Die Legende von Paul und Paula (1966) or East Germany in the '70s
Solo Sunny (1980) or Even Socialism Can't Stave Off Loneliness
Postwar West German Cinema 1949-1989: Historical Overview
Die Brücke (1959): Film and War
Der junge Törless (1966) or Recapturing Tradition
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972): Film and the Sublime
Deutschland im Herbst (1978) or Film and Politics
Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979) or West Germany Rebuilds
Die Blechtrommel (1979) or Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past
Die bleierne Zeit (1981): Film and Terrorism
Der Himmel über Berlin (1987): Berlin, City of Angels
German Film after Reunification 1990-2010: Historical Overview
Der bewegte Mann (1994) or West German Self-Absorption
Rossini (1994) or West German Self-Absorption Criticized
Lola rennt (1998) or Cool Germania
Good Bye Lenin! (2003) or Farewell to the Socialist Motherland
Gegen die Wand (2004) or Germany Goes Multicultural
Das Leben der anderen (2006) or the Power of Art
Index