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Women in Weimar Fashion by Mila Ganeva (Customer)
RRP: $45.86SciFier: $32.51New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women. In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media... -
Cultural History through a National Socialist Lens by Robert C. Reimer (Author)
RRP: $43.08SciFier: $38.82A fascinating look at Nazi Germany as revealed in its films. This collection of essays offers a view of Nazi Germany through an analysis of twenty films, representing a sampling of the period's... -
Wings of Desire by Christian Rogowski (Customer)
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $24.84A guide through the many aspects of Wenders's groundbreaking film, employing archival research to bring out new insights into its making and its meanings. Filmed in 1986/87 in still-divided... -
Fitzcarraldo by Lutz Koepnick (Royalty Account)
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $24.84Revisits Herzog's classic film from a decisively contemporary standpoint, bringing into play the development of his filmmaking career. When it was released in 1982, Werner Herzog's... -
Edinburgh German Yearbook 9 by Dora Osborne
SciFier: $136.90Explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive in German-language literature and culture since 1945. In recent years, the discourse of memory - and of German memory culture... -
Narrative and Stylistic Patterns in the Films of Stanley Kubrick by Luis M. Garcia Mainar
RRP: $41.69SciFier: $38.82A critical study of the films of Stanley Kubrick, one of the great directors of the century. Garcia Mainar's critical study of the films of the late Stanley Kubrick includes analysis of all but... -
Phoenix by Professor Brad Prager (Series Editor)
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $24.84Offers not only a close reading but also a film-historical contextualization of Phoenix, constituting the most significant and thorough study of Petzold's film to date. Christian Petzold's... -
The White Ribbon by Dr. Fatima Naqvi (Customer)
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $24.84Explores Haneke's historically complex film as a reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child-rearing. White ribbons and black pedagogy - Michael Haneke's award-winning film The White... -
The Golem, How He Came into the World by Maya Barzilai (Royalty Account)
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $25.81Provides an aesthetic and historical overview of and new critical insights into Paul Wegener's great 1920 film, recognized at the time as a breakthrough in German cinema. Actor and director... -
Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film by Erik Butler (Customer)
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $34.86The first study to propose a unifying logic underlying the many and varied representations of the vampire in literature and culture. For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have... -
A Critical History of German Film, Second Edition by Professor Stephen Brockmann (Royalty Account)
SciFier: $83.66The most comprehensive, readable history of German cinema now appears in an expanded, up-to-date new edition that is particularly useful for students and teachers of German film history. From... -
Gender and Representation in the Films of Ingmar Bergman by Marilyn Johns Blackwell
SciFier: $116.84A detailed feminist study of Bergman's most important films. This book covers the whole of Bergman's production, but concentrates in particular on close analyses of five of his major films: Smiles... -
Why I Like This Story Jackson R. Bryer (Royalty Account) 9781640140585
RRP: $62.55SciFier: $55.78Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories... -
Why I Like This Story Jackson R. Bryer (Royalty Account) 9781640142145
RRP: $37.52SciFier: $33.75Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read, or re-read, the stories... -
Warning Shadows by Professor Anjeana K. Hans (Contributor)
SciFier: $30.50A view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema - now restored and widely available - as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film. Artur Robison's... -
The Marriage of Maria Braun by Priscilla Layne
SciFier: $30.50A new reading of Fassbinder's most popular film that highlights the roles of race and gender. The Marriage of Maria Braun is the most popular film by the enfant terrible director Rainer Werner... -
Coming Out by Kyle Frackman (Customer)
SciFier: $28.80Examines the creation, context, and significance of the first and only East German feature film about homosexuality. It took forty years for East Germany's state-run studios, DEFA, to produce a... -
German Graphic Narratives and Trauma by Elisabeth Krimmer (Series Editor)
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $102.64This volume explores the representation of political, racial, sexual, and environmental trauma in German-language graphic narratives, which has thus far received little scholarly attention. In... -
Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture by Jill Twark (Royalty Account)
RRP: $132.05SciFier: $131.59Explores how contemporary German-language literary, dramatic, filmic, musical, and street artists are grappling in their works with social-justice issues that affect Germany and the wider world. ... -
The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema by Christian Rogowski (Customer)
RRP: $45.86SciFier: $34.04New essays re-evaluating Weimar cinema from a broadened, up-to-date perspective. Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited... -
The Differentiation of Modernism by Professor Larson Powell (Customer)
SciFier: $154.28The Differentiation of Modernism analyzes the phenomenon of intermediality in German radio plays, film music, and electronic music of the late modernist period (1945-1980). After 1945, the purist... -
The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film by Robin Curtis (Royalty Account)
RRP: $132.05SciFier: $131.59A volume of essays marking out a new, historically and culturally specific model for contemplating autobiographical non-fiction film and video. There is a widespread notion in the scholarly... -
Toni Erdmann by Professor Gerd Gemunden (Series Editor)
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $22.57The first in-depth analysis of Maren Ade's acclaimed contemporary classic, a generational tug-of-war about the meaning of life, work, and death. Maren Ade's tragicomedy Toni Erdmann, a 2016 Cannes... -
Expressionist Film -- New Perspectives by Dietrich Scheunemann
RRP: $43.08SciFier: $38.82New essays by leading scholars giving a new picture of the variety of German expressionist cinema. This volume of fresh essays by leading scholars develops a new approach to expressionist film... -
Approaches to Kurban Said's Ali and Nino by Carl Niekerk (Customer)
SciFier: $153.58Essays showcasing Ali and Nino as particularly topical for today's readers both in and out of the classroom, and providing a number of diverse approaches to it. Ali and Nino is a novel... -
Film and Fashion amidst the Ruins of Berlin by Mila Ganeva (Customer)
RRP: $34.74SciFier: $32.78Shows how cinematic treatments of fashion during times of crisis offer subtle reflections on the everyday lives, desires, careers, and self-perceptions of postwar German women. This book steers...