Generic histories of German cinema : genre and its deviations /

"Generic Histories offers a fresh approach, tracing a series of key genres -- including horror, science fiction, the thriller, Heimat films, and war films -- over the course of German cinema history. It also addresses detective films, comedies, policiers, and romances that deliberately localize...

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Tác giả khác: Fisher, Jaimey (Biên tập viên)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Rochester, New York : Camden House 2013.
Loạt:Screen cultures.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt31nhth
Mục lục:
  • Introduction: toward generic histories: film genre, genre theory, and German film studies / Jaimey Fisher
  • Parallel modernities: from haunted screen to universal horror / Gerd Gemunden
  • The essay film and its German variations / Nora M. Alter
  • The limits of futurity: German science fiction film in the course of time / Lutz Koepnick
  • The situation is hopeless, but not desperate: UFA's early sound film musicals / Eric Rentschler
  • Resisting the war (film): Wicki's "masterpiece" Die Brucke (1959) and its generic transformations / Jaimey Fisher
  • Ironizing identity: the German crime genre and the Edgar Wallace production trend of the 1960s / Sascha Gerhards
  • From Siodmak to Schlingensief: the return of history as horror / Kris Vander Lugt
  • Producing adaptations: Bernd Eichinger, Christiane F., and German film history / Hester Baer
  • Exceptional thrills: genrification, Dr. Mabuse, and Das Experiment / Steve Choe
  • The Heimat film in the twenty-first century: negotiating the New German cinema to return to Papas Kino / Paul Cooke
  • The romantic comedy and its other: representations of romance in German cinema since 1990 / Antje Ascheid
  • Yearning for genre: the films of Dominik Graf / Marco Abel.