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  • German National Cinema

    by Sabine Hake ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    German National Cinema is the first comprehensive history of German film from its origins to the present. In this new edition, Sabine Hake discusses film-making in economic, political, social, and cultural terms, and considers the contribution of Germany's most popular films to changing definitions of genre, authorship, and film form.The book traces the central role of cinema in the nation’s ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Topographies of Class

    Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin

    by Sabine Hake ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, Hake examines the way in which architectural projects; debates; and representations in literature, photography, and film played a key role in establishing the terms under which ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Passions and Deceptions

    The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch

    by Sabine Hake ...
    A collaborator with Warner Brothers and Paramount in the early days of sound film, the German film director Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) is famous for his sense of ironic detachment and for the eroticism he infused into such comedies as So This Is Paris and Trouble in Paradise. In a general introduction to his silent and early sound films (1914-1932) and in close readings of his comedies, Sabine ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • Popular Cinema of the Third Reich

    by Sabine Hake ...
    Too often dismissed as escapist entertainment or vilified as mass manipulation, popular cinema in the Third Reich was in fact sustained by well-established generic conventions, cultural traditions, aesthetic sensibilities, social practices, and a highly developed star system—not unlike its Hollywood counterpart in the 1930s. This pathfinding study contributes to the ongoing reassessment of Third ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Convergence Media History

    Edited by Janet Staiger, Sabine Hake ...
    Convergence Media History explores the ways that digital convergence has radically changed the field of media history. Writing media history is no longer a matter of charting the historical development of an individual medium such as film or television. Instead, now that various media from blockbuster films to everyday computer use intersect regularly via convergence, scholars must find new ways ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Framing the Fifties

    Cinema in a Divided Germany

    Edited by John Davidson, Sabine Hake ...
    Series Book 4 - Film Europa
    The demise of the New German Cinema and the return of popular cinema since the 1990s have led to a renewed interest in the postwar years and the complicated relationship between East and West German cinema in particular. A survey of the 1950s, as offered here for the first time, is therefore long overdue. Moving beyond the contempt for "Papa's Kino" and the nostalgia for the fifties found in much ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989

    Edited by Philip Broadbent, Sabine Hake ...
    Series Book 6 - Culture & Society in Germany
    A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary analysis. This volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decades preceding reunification and thereby offers a unique perspective on divided Berlin ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium

    Sites, Sounds, and Screens

    Edited by Sabine Hake, Barbara Mennel ...
    Series Book 13 - Film Europa
    In the last five years of the twentieth century, films by the second and third generation of the so-called German guest workers exploded onto the German film landscape. Self-confident, articulate, and dynamic, these films situate themselves in the global exchange of cinematic images, citing and rewriting American gangster narratives, Kung Fu action films, and paralleling other emergent European ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • A Companion to German Cinema

    Edited by Terri Ginsberg, Andrea Mensch ...
    Series Book 4 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to German CinemaA Companion to German Cinema regards the shifting terrain of German filmmaking and film studies against their larger social contexts with twenty-two newly commissioned essays by well-established and younger scholars in the field. While several of these focus on classic topics such as Weimar cinema, Fifties cinema, New German Cinema and its legacy, and Holocaust film, ... Read more

    $170.99 CAD

  • The Use and Abuse of Cinema

    German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present

    by Eric Rentschler ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar and postwall epochs and into the new millennium. These journeys afford rich panoramas and nuanced close-ups from a nation's production of fantasies and spectacles, traversing the different ways in ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture

    Edited by John Sandford ...
    With more than 1,100 entries written by an international group of over 150 contributors, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture brings together myriad strands of social, political and cultural life in the post-1945 German-speaking world.With a unique structure and format, an inclusive treatment of the concept of culture, and coverage of East, West and post-unification Germany, as well as ... Read more

    $119.54 CAD

  • Weimar Cinema

    An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era

    Edited by Noah Isenberg ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde and fantasy films, sexual intrigues and love stories, the classics of silent cinema and Germany's first talkies, each chapter ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD