This is the first book in any language on the films of Konrad Wolf (1925-1982), East Germany's greatest filmmaker, and puts Wolf in a larger European filmic and

Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape studies an overlooked yet fundamental element of German popular culture in the twentieth centur

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

A history of German film dealing with individual films as works of art has long been needed. Existing histories tend to treat cinema as an economic rather than

Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath.