Based on the premise that a society’s sense of commonality depends upon media practices, this study examines how Hollywood responded to the crisis of...
German film in the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods is regarded as marked by a strong sense of cultural conservatism and the aspiration to be recognized...
The Nazi regime did not merely terrorize its citizens into submission; it also seduced them by offering stability, a traditional value system, a sense...
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...
The film histories of Germany and the United States have long been seen as intertwined, but scholarship has focused on émigré works of the 1930s and...
Hitler's Machtergreifung, or seizure of power, on January 30, 1933, marked the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the Third Reich, and...
Through their analysis of the depictions in film and literature of masculinities in colonial, independent and post-independent Africa, the...
The contemporary German directors collectively known as the "Berlin School" constitute the most significant filmmaking movement to come out of Germany...