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Published June 2026 Entertaining German Culture
Contemporary Transnational Television and Film
Ehrig, S., Schaper, B. & Ward, E. (eds)
In an increasingly transnational production of film and television, Entertaining German Culture explores and contextually thematizes a radical shift in the past fifteen years towards a profound appreciation of German cultural and intellectual history in the international mainstream.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies History (General)
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Forthcoming August 2026
Moving Frames
Photographs in German Cinema
Collenberg-González, C. & Sheehan, M. P. (eds)
Through an intermedial approach combining studies on cinema and photography, Moving Frames addresses precise historical moments uniquely in a German context. Across films both in and outside the canon, this volume tackles those specific historical moments experienced in media forms to gauge the cultural, political, and transnational trends in humanity’s desire for agency and how that agency is represented.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2024
East German Film and the Holocaust
Ward, E.
By combining close analyses of five films made between 1947 and 1988 with extensive archival research, this book unravels the complex status of films dealing with Jewish persecution produced in a country that consistently privileged narratives of political persecution above racial victimhood.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2023
Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema
Hales, B. & Weinstein, V. (eds)
The film industry in the Weimar Republic was a major site for German-Jewish experience that provided a sphere for Jewish "outsiders" to shape mainstream culture. The essays in Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema offer new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the significant involvement of Jewish people in Weimar cinema.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Forthcoming October 2026
Sensitive Subjects
The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema
Mukhida, L.
Sensitive Subjects examines how contemporary German-language cinema may be read as seeking to produce greater political sensitivity in audiences through its form—that is, by employing medium-specific devices such as lighting, sound, editing and mise-en-scène in ways that prompt a more critical stance towards the societies it depicts.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Forthcoming July 2026
Modern Lusts
Ernest Borneman: Jazz Critic, Filmmaker, Sexologist
Siegfried, D.
Detlef Siegfried’s long-awaited English translation chronicles Ernest Borneman’s journey from his days as a young Jewish Communist in Berlin to his ventures in England and Canada, and ultimately, to his endeavors as the most prominent sexologist spearheading the sexual revolution in West Germany and Austria in the twentieth century.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published January 2024
Don't Need No Thought Control
Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Horten, G.
Don't Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay between popular demands, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policy decisions during the Erich Honecker era in a comprehensive and comparative analysis.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies
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Published December 2025
A Dramatic Reinvention
German Television and Moral Renewal after National Socialism, 1956–1970
Anderson, S.
A Dramatic Revinvention sheds new light on how Germans rebuilt their moral and intellectual world after the Nazi catastrophe. The book argues that television emerged as one of the most important mediums for presenting, discussing, and working through the question of how to re-moralize Germany.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies
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Published January 2022
Cinema of Collaboration
DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe
Ivanova, M.
Almost from their very inception, European cinemas frequently undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational “Film-Europe.” And despite the significant obstacles that the East/West divide presented to achieving that ideal, in the postwar era it was DEFA, the state cinema of the newly created East Germany, that emerged as one of the primary sites where these practices persisted.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2022
Screening Art
Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema
Allan, S.
Screening Art represents the first full-length study of films about art and artists produced by the state-owned Eastern German film studio DEFA. It investigates the essential role that these “art films” played in the development of new paradigms of socialist art in post-war Europe.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2025
Screened Encounters
The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990
Moine, C.
Established in 1955, the Leipzig Film Festival’s location in the GDR deeply implicated it in the cultural and political competition between East and West Germany. Screened Encounters offers a comprehensive study of the festival’s history, as well as its influence on international relations during the Cold War.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published June 2019
Mad Mädchen
Feminism and Generational Conflict in Recent German Literature and Film
McCarthy, M.
The last two decades have been frequently discordant for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement’s strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. This book offers an incisive cultural analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying characteristic features of their representation in German literature, film, and media.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Media Studies Film and Television Studies Literary Studies
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Published September 2016
Re-Imagining DEFA
East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts
Allan, S. & Heiduschke, S. (eds)
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, interest in East German cinema has exploded, inspiring innumerable festivals, books, and exhibits. In this stimulating collection, leading international experts assess this vibrant landscape and plot an ambitious course for future research that considers other cinematic traditions, genre works, and DEFA’s post-unification “afterlife.”
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2018
German Television
Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Powell, L. & Shandley, Robert R. (eds)
Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume collects penetrating essays on the distinctive theories, practices, and social-historical contexts that defined television in Germany.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published April 2017
Television's Moment
Sitcom Audiences and the Sixties Cultural Revolution
Hodenberg, C. von
Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country’s population. This book explores television’s impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms and their audiences.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Film and Television Studies
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Published April 2017
Imperial Projections
Screening the German Colonies
Fuhrmann, W.
Scandals and economic stagnation in the colonies demanded a new and positive image of their value for Germany. By promoting business and establishing a new genre within the fast growing film industry, films of the colonies triggered patriotic feelings but also addressed the audience as travelers, explorers, wildlife protectionists, and participants in unique cultural events.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Colonial History
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Published June 2015
Postwall German Cinema
History, Film History and Cinephilia
Frey, M.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2014
Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium
Sites, Sounds, and Screens
Hake, S. & Mennel, B. (eds)
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published December 2015
Peter Lorre: Face Maker
Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe
Thomas, S.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2013
Screening the East
Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989
Hodgin, N.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2011
Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory
Visible Man and The Spirit of Film
Balázs, B.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published February 2012
Dismantling the Dream Factory
Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language
Baer, H.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published February 2012
Willing Seduction
The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture
Kosta, B.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published September 2009
Michael Haneke's Cinema
The Ethic of the Image
Wheatley, C.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published August 2012
Destination London
German-Speaking Emigrés and British Cinema, 1925-1950
Bergfelder, T. & Cargnelli, C. (eds)
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2008
A Foreign Affair
Billy Wilder's American Films
Gemünden, G.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published December 2008
Framing the Fifties
Cinema in a Divided Germany
Davidson, J. & Hake, S. (eds)
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2007
Between Two Worlds
The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933
Prawer, S. S.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Jewish Studies
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Published September 2005
International Adventures
German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s
Bergfelder, T.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published August 1999
DEFA
East German Cinema 1946-1992
Allan, S. & Sandford, J. (eds)
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 1999
Beyond Caligari
The Films of Robert Wiene
Jung, U. & Schatzberg, W.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published December 1996
From Caligari to California
Eric Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars
Hardt, U.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 1997
The Triumph of Propaganda
Film and National Socialism 1933-1945
Hoffmann, H.
Subjects: History: World War II Film and Television Studies
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