The Nazi regime did not merely terrorize its citizens into submission; it also seduced them by offering stability, a traditional value system, a sense...
Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) was one of the truly great film-makers of the twentieth century. Shaped by a repressive Jesuit education and a bourgeois...
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...
Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a...
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...
"A unique and indeed indispensable addition to the critical literature on a writer of world importance." Gerald Martin, author of Gabriel García...
There is a widespread notion in the scholarly literature on autobiographical nonfiction film that there are unchanging, universal models for the...
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, East Germany's DEFA filmmakers had a brief window in which to critique GDR society on either side of the Wende, the...
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...