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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House,
2013.
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| Series: | Screen cultures.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
