Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward Generic Histories—Film Genre, Genre Theory, and German Film Studies
- 1 Parallel Modernities: From Haunted Screen to Universal Horror
- 2 The Essay Film and Its German Variations
- 3 The Limits of Futurity: German Science-Fiction Film over the Course of Time
- 4 The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Desperate: UFA's Early Sound Film Musicals
- 5 Resisting the War (Film): Wicki's “Masterpiece” Die Brücke and Its Generic Transformations
- 6 Ironizing Identity: The German Crime Genre and the Edgar Wallace Production Trend of the 1960s
- 7 From Siodmak to Schlingensief: The Return of History as Horror
- 8 Producing Adaptations: Bernd Eichinger, Christiane F., and German Film History
- 9 Exceptional Thrills: Genrification, Dr. Mabuse, and Das Experiment
- 10 The Heimat Film in the Twenty-First Century: Negotiating the New German Cinema to Return to Papas Kino
- 11 The Romantic Comedy and Its Other: Representations of Romance in German Cinema since 1990
- 12 Yearning for Genre: The Films of Dominik Graf
- Bibliography
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward Generic Histories—Film Genre, Genre Theory, and German Film Studies
- 1 Parallel Modernities: From Haunted Screen to Universal Horror
- 2 The Essay Film and Its German Variations
- 3 The Limits of Futurity: German Science-Fiction Film over the Course of Time
- 4 The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Desperate: UFA's Early Sound Film Musicals
- 5 Resisting the War (Film): Wicki's “Masterpiece” Die Brücke and Its Generic Transformations
- 6 Ironizing Identity: The German Crime Genre and the Edgar Wallace Production Trend of the 1960s
- 7 From Siodmak to Schlingensief: The Return of History as Horror
- 8 Producing Adaptations: Bernd Eichinger, Christiane F., and German Film History
- 9 Exceptional Thrills: Genrification, Dr. Mabuse, and Das Experiment
- 10 The Heimat Film in the Twenty-First Century: Negotiating the New German Cinema to Return to Papas Kino
- 11 The Romantic Comedy and Its Other: Representations of Romance in German Cinema since 1990
- 12 Yearning for Genre: The Films of Dominik Graf
- Bibliography
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- Generic Histories of German CinemaGenre and its Deviations, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013