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March 2025
Screened Encounters
The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990
Moine, C.

February 2025
Soho on Screen
Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963
Young, J.

March 2025
Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus
Film Cultures and International Reception
Van Belle, J., Arenos, F. R., & Peirano, M. P. (eds)

March 2025
Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War
The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global
Pisu, S., Pitassio, F., & Zinni, M. (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
Latest Film and Television Studies Blog Articles
Michael Haneke – 23 March 1942
For Michael Haneke’s birthday, we have put together some of our relevent titles looking at the film director. We have also collected some some Film Studies series, and Open Access Film and Television Studies for further browsing. For more content, you can also check out our website by Subject: Film and Television Studies here, or browse… Read More
Andrzej Wajda (6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016)
Polish Cinema For Andrzej Wajda’s birthday, we have put together some of our titles looking at the Polish film director, as well as some titles on Eastern European cinema, down below. For more content, you can browse our website by Subject: Film and Television Studies here, or browse by Area: Central/Eastern Europe here. Open Access… Read More
International Men’s Day
19 November 2024 November 19th is International Men’s Day, which recognises “worldwide the positive value men bring to the world, their families and communities […] highlight[ing] positive role models and raise awareness of men’s well-being”. The official theme for 2024 is “Positive Male Role Models”. This information has been taking from the official site. You… Read More
World Philosophy Day
21 November, 2024 – 3rd Thursday of November World Philosophy Day is celebrated on the third Thursday of November, this year on the 21st of November. Read more from the UNESCO World Philosophy Day page here. In the spirit of this day, we have compiled some of our Philosophy Studies titles below. Where is the… Read More
Fall of the Berlin Wall, 9 November 1989
35th anniversary This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall (9 November 1989)! To celebrate the Fall of the Berlin Wall, we want to spotlight our Books Series on German Studies. These series span further than only our most recent publications, and include a number of Open Access books, entirely… Read More
World Adoption Day
9 November The 9th of November is World Adoption Day! As described on the official website, “The day was created for the purpose of celebrating family, raising awareness for adoption and raising funds to support families in the adoption journey“. This year marks a decade since its creation. Read more from the organisation’s page here.… Read More
International Day of Care and Support
29 October The 29th October 2024 is the International Day of Care and Support! As the United Nations explains, “Care work, both paid and unpaid, is crucial to the future of decent work. Growing populations, ageing societies, changing families, women’s secondary status in labour markets and shortcomings in social policies demand urgent action on the… Read More
World Food Day
16 October 2024 The 16th October 2024 is World Food Day! As the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations explains, “‘Foods’ stands for diversity, nutrition, affordability, accessibility and safety. A greater diversity of nutritious foods should be available in our fields, fishing nets, markets, and on our tables, for the benefit of all.” Read more… Read More
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Berghahn recognizes the significance of indigenous cultures and in the spirit of this day, we have collected some of our relevant titles below. Enacted Relations Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community Franca Tamisari “This is an excellent exploration and exegesis of Yolngu performance in all its varied forms from… Read More
International Day of the Girl Child
Today is the United Nations’ International Day of the Girl Child, and this year’s theme is ‘Girls’ vision for the future’. In the spirit of this day, we have compiled a collection of some of our titles looking at girlhood below, with free to read introductions and some open access titles. For more content, you… Read More
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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