Berghahn Film and Television Studies
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August 2023
Entertaining German Culture
Contemporary Transnational Television and Film
Ehrig, S., Schaper, B. & Ward, E. (eds)

October 2023
Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe
From Communism to Capitalism
Shpolberg, M. & Brasiskis, L. (eds)
Film and Television Studies-Related Journals

Projections
The Journal for Movies and Mind
ISSN Print: 1934-9688
ISSN Online: 1934-9696

Screen Bodies
The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology
ISSN Print: 2374-7552
ISSN Online: 2374-7560
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Interview with an author – Peer Review Week
Berghahn Books has been a rigorous peer-reviewed press since its inception in 1994 and has always considered this essential both for assuring the quality and scholarship of our titles but also for providing insightful feedback for our authors to enable them to improve, refine and develop their work. Supporting early career academics is an important […]
Interview with a Journal Editor – Peer Review Week
As a peer-reviewed press, our journals are committed to instituting a thorough review process that is thoughtfully mediated by our journal editors to be inclusive, constructive, and ethical. Our journals pride themselves on being especially supportive of the innovative insights of early career researchers and it is thanks to the peer review process that up-and-coming […]
Women’s Equality Day
Women’s Equality Day is celebrated each year on August 26th to commemorate the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Today the observance of Women’s Equality Day has grown to mean much more than just sharing the right to the vote, but also calls attention to women’s continuing efforts toward full equality. Numerous […]
Author Interview: Rowan Mackenzie on ‘Shakespeare and Social Engagement’
Rowan Mackenzie, co-editor of 'Shakespeare and Social Engagement' takes us through the development of the latest book in our Shakespeare & series, her focus on practice-based research and what this collected volume reveals.
World Breastfeeding Week
World Breastfeeding Week is held yearly from 1st to 7th of August in more than 120 countries. Being organized by WABA, WHO and UNICEF, the goal is to promote exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life which yields tremendous health benefits, providing critical nutrients, protection from deadly diseases and fostering growth. To learn more […]
Readings on Abortion
In an effort to further public understanding of abortion and Roe v. Wade, we are offering free access to these relevant journal articles and book chapters. ABORTION IN ASIALocal Dilemmas, Global PoliticsEdited by Andrea Whittaker “[This book] makes an empirically rich and important contribution to social scientific scholarship on induced abortion practices and will hopefully […]
Celebrating Bastille Day
Celebrated on July, 14, Bastille Day is the French national day and one of the most important bank holidays in France. The day commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille on the 14th July 1789, a medieval fortress and prison which was a symbol of tyrannical Bourbon authority and […]
Author Article: Servants of Culture: Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914
Ambika Natarajan discusses her new book, Servants of Culture: Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914, which provides an account of Habsburg servant law since the eighteenth century and uncovers the paternalistic and maternalistic assumptions and anxieties which turned the interest of socio-political players in improving poor living and working conditions into practices that […]
Happy Birthday, Keith Hart!
22 June 2023 is Keith Hart’s 80th birthday and all at Berghahn wish him many happy returns of the day! Keith Hart has edited, authored, or contributed to more than a dozen Berghahn titles, which is quite a record. He is also the founding editor of The Human Economy series, which has just published John […]
Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980)
Jean-Paul Sartre was a key figure in French philosophy and Marxism in the twentieth century. A a playwright, philosopher, novelist, political activist, and more, his work was very influential. As such, he has featured in several books from Berghahn over the years and has a journal dedicated to his ideas. See below to explore the […]
Series: Film Europa

Peter Lilienthal
A Cinema of Exile and Resistance
Claudia Sandberg

Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema
Edited by Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein

Sensitive Subjects
The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema
Leila Mukhida

East German Film and the Holocaust
Elizabeth Ward

Cinema of Collaboration
DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe
Mariana Ivanova

Screening Art
Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema
Seán Allan

German Television
Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Edited by Larson Powell and Robert R. Shandley

Cinema in Service of the State
Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
Edited by Lars Karl and Pavel Skopal

Imperial Projections
Screening the German Colonies
Wolfgang Fuhrmann

The Emergence of Film Culture
Knowledge Production, Institution Building, and the Fate of the Avant-Garde in Europe, 1919–1945
Edited by Malte Hagener

Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema
Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity
Maria Fritsche

Postwall German Cinema
History, Film History and Cinephilia
Mattias Frey

Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium
Sites, Sounds, and Screens
Edited by Sabine Hake and Barbara Mennel

Peter Lorre: Face Maker
Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe
Sarah Thomas

Screening the East
Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989
Nick Hodgin

Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory
Visible Man and The Spirit of Film
Béla Balázs
Translated by Rodney Livingstone
Edited by Erica Carter
Published in association with Screen

Dismantling the Dream Factory
Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language
Hester Baer

Willing Seduction
The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture
Barbara Kosta

Michael Haneke's Cinema
The Ethic of the Image
Catherine Wheatley

Destination London
German-Speaking Emigrés and British Cinema, 1925-1950
Edited by Tim Bergfelder and Christian Cargnelli

A Foreign Affair
Billy Wilder's American Films
Gerd Gemünden

Framing the Fifties
Cinema in a Divided Germany
Edited by John Davidson and Sabine Hake

Between Two Worlds
The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933
S. S. Prawer†

International Adventures
German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s
Tim Bergfelder

The Concise Cinegraph
Encyclopaedia of German Cinema
General Editor: Hans-Michael Bock, CineGraph Hamburg
Associate Editor: Tim Bergfelder, University of Southampton
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