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...
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...
Das Buch nimmt die Frage zum Ausgangspunkt, inwiefern sich die Gefühlsqualität filmischer Bilder analytisch qualifizieren lässt. Lassen sich...
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...
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...
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...
"A unique and indeed indispensable addition to the critical literature on a writer of world importance." Gerald Martin, author of Gabriel García...
Through their analysis of the depictions in film and literature of masculinities in colonial, independent and post-independent Africa, the...
The Nazi regime did not merely terrorize its citizens into submission; it also seduced them by offering stability, a traditional value system, a sense...