A historical overview of German film from the silent era to the present, presenting close readings of 14 films from five major historical periods of German cine

Contributors explore these films' transnational circuits of production, distribution, and exhibition, as well as how the films were made and received, thereby i

This volume will be of great interest to scholars of German and global cinema.

This comprehensively revised, updated and significantly extended edition introduces German film history from its beginnings to the present day, covering key per

By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic—to the extent it was considered at all—was widely regarded as a footnote