Generic histories of German cinema : genre and its deviations / edited by Jaimey Fisher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fisher, Jaimey, editor.

Series:

Screen cultures

Screen cultures: German film and the visual

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Germany--History.

Motion pictures.

Film genres.

Germany.

History.

Film genres--Germany.

Physical Description:

vi, 326 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2013.

Contents:

Introduction: toward generic histories: film genre, genre theory, and German film studies / Jaimey Fisher

Parallel modernities: from haunted screen to universal horror / Gerd Gemunden

The essay film and its German variations / Nora M. Alter

The limits of futurity: German science fiction film in the course of time / Lutz Koepnick

The situation is hopeless, but not desperate: UFA's early sound film musicals / Eric Rentschler

Resisting the war (film): Wicki's "masterpiece" Die Brucke (1959) and its generic transformations / Jaimey Fisher

Ironizing identity: the German crime genre and the Edgar Wallace production trend of the 1960s / Sascha Gerhards

From Siodmak to Schlingensief: the return of history as horror / Kris Vander Lugt

Producing adaptations: Bernd Eichinger, Christiane F., and German film history / Hester Baer

Exceptional thrills: genrification, Dr. Mabuse, and Das Experiment / Steve Choe

The Heimat film in the twenty-first century: negotiating the New German cinema to return to Papas Kino / Paul Cooke

The romantic comedy and its other: representations of romance in German cinema since 1990 / Antje Ascheid

Yearning for genre: the films of Dominik Graf / Marco Abel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781571135704

1571135707

OCLC:

827974071