A dynamic, event-centered exploration of the hundred-year history of German-language film.

This dynamic, event-centered anthology offers a new understanding of the hundred-year history of German-language film, from the earliest days of the Kintopp to contemporary productions like The Lives of Others. Eachof the more than eighty essays takes a key date as its starting point and explores its significance for German film history, pursuing its relationship with its social, political, and aesthetic moment. While the essays offer ampletemporal and topical spread, this book emphasizes the juxtaposition of famous and unknown stories, granting attention to a wide range of cinematic events. Brief section introductions provide a larger historical and film-historicalframework that illuminates the essays within it, offering both scholars and the general reader a setting for the individual texts and figures under investigation. Cross-references to other essays in the book are included at the close of each entry, encouraging readers not only to pursue familiar trajectories in the development of German film, but also to trace particular figures and motifs across genres and historical periods. Together, the contributionsoffer a new view of the multiple, intersecting narratives that make up German-language cinema. The constellation that is thus established challenges unidirectional narratives of German film history and charts new ways of thinkingabout film historiography more broadly.

Jennifer Kapczynski is Associate Professor of German at Washington University, St. Louis, and Michael Richardson is Associate Professor of German at Ithaca College.

Contributions by: Adeline Mueller, Andrea Reimann, Annette Brauerhoch, Antje Ascheid, Anton Kaes, Barbara Kosta, Barbara Mennel, Barton Byg, Bastian Heinsohn, Brad Prager, Brían Hanrahan, Brigitta Brigitta Wagner, Brigitte Peucker, Britta Herdegen, Carola Daffner, Christian Rogowski, Christine Haase, Cornelius Partsch, Cynthia Walk, Daniel H. Magilow, David Bathrick, David N Coury, Dayton Henderson, Deniz Gokturk, Eric Ames, Eric Rentschler, Erin McGlothlin, Faye Stewart, Ph.D., Gary Baker, Gerd Gemünden, Gregory Zinman, Heide Schlüpmann, Hester Baer, Hunter Bivens, Jaimey Fisher, Janelle Blankenship, Jennifer M. Kapczynski, Jennifer Marston William, Joel Westerdale, Johannes von Moltke, John Griffith Urang, Jonathan Skolnik, Kai Sicks, Kamaal Haque, Katharina Loew, Katie Trumpener, Kris Vander Lugt, Larson Powell, Laura Heins, Lutz Koepnick, Marc Silberman, Marco Abel, Martina Lüke, Martina Roepke, Mattias Frey, Michael Cowan, Michael D. Richardson, Michael Wedel, Mila Ganeva, Monica Filimon, Noah Isenberg, Nora M. Alter, Patricia Anne Simpson, Patrick Vonderau, Paul Coates, Paul Cooke - see C80107, Paul Dobryden, Philipp Stiasny, Rachel Palfreyman, Randall Norman Halle, Reinhild Steingröver, Richard Langston, Robert Schechtman, Robert von Dassanowsky, Roger Cook, Russell Alt, Sara Hall, Sebastian Heiduschke, Simon Richter, Tan Waelchli, Tassilo Schneider, Tilman Baumgärtel, Tobias Nagl, Ulrike Weckel, Wilfried Wilms PhD, Will Lehman