GERM 3395
Spring 2005
Dr. Sandy Frieden

Selected Bibliography (English)
HISTORY OF GERMAN CINEMA

 

 

EARLY GERMAN CINEMA

Eisner, Lotte. The Haunted Screen. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1965.

Kracauer, Siegfried. From Caligari to Hitler. Princeton Univ. Press, 1947. Paperback: 1966.

Elsaesser, Thomas. A History of New German Cinema. Rutgers Univ. Press, 1989.

Hake, Sabine. German National Cinema. London: Routledge, 2002.

 

GERMAN FILM-GENERAL & NEW GERMAN CINEMA

Corrigan, Timothy. New German Film: The Displaced Image. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1983.

Frieden, Sandra, R. McCormick, V. Petersen, L.M. Vogelsang. Gender and German Cinema. Providence: Berg, 1993.

Kaes, Anton. From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1989.

New German Critique, No. 24-25, Fall/Winter 1981-2. Spec. Dbl.Issue on New German Cinema.

Pflaum, H.G. and H.H. Prinzler. Cinema in the Federal Republic of Germany. Bonn: Internationes, 1983.

Phillips, Klaus. New German Filmmakers. New York: Ungar, 1984.

Rentschler, Eric, ed. German Film and Literature. New York: Methuen, 1986.

Rentschler, Eric, West German Film in the Course of Time. New York: Redgrave, 1984.

Sandford, J. The New German Cinema. London: O. Wolff, 1980.

Silberman, Marc. German Cinema: Texts in Context. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995.

Wide Angle, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1980. Special Issue on New German Cinema.

 

CINEMATIC TECHNIQUES

Bordwell, David & Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1979.

Monaco, James. How to Read a Film. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1977.

 

GENERAL FILM THEORY

Andrew, J. Dudley. The Major Film Theories: An Introduction. NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1976.

Mast, Gerald and Marshall Cohen. Film Theory & Criticism. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1977.

Nichols, Bill. Ideology and the Image: Social Representation in the Cinema and Other Media. Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1981.

Wollen, Peter. Signs and Meaning in the Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1972.

 

NAZI GERMANY

Carr, William. A History of Germany 1815-1945. London: E. Arnold, 1969.

French, Marilyn. Beyond Power. On Women, Men and Morals. NY: Summit, 1985.

Grunberger, Richard. A Social History of the Third Reich. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.

Koonz, Claudia.Mothers in the Fatherland.Women, The Family, and Nazi Politics. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1987.

Reich, Wilhelm. The Mass Psychology of Fascism. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.

Stephenson, Jill. Women in Nazi Society. London: C. Helm, 1975.

Wolf, Christa. A Model Childhood. Trans. U. Molinaro/H. Rappolt. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.

Zeman, Z.A.B. Nazi Propaganda. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973.

 

FILM IN/ABOUT NAZI GERMANY

Avisar, Ilan. Screening the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1988.

Insdorf, Annette. Indelible Shadows. Film and the Holocaust. NY: Vintage, 1983.

Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Univ. of Texas Press, 2002.

Kracauer, Siegfried. From Caligari to Hitler. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1966.

Leiser, Erwin. Nazi Cinema. Trans. G. Mander/D. Wilson. NY: Macmillan, 1974.

Petley, Julian. Capital and Culture: German Cinema 1933-45. London: BFI, 1979.

Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard Univ. Press, 1996.

Welch, David. Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-1945. NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1983.

 

WOMEN IN NAZI GERMANY

Bridenthal, R., et al, eds.When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar & Nazi Germany. NY: Monthly Rev.Press, '84

French, Marilyn. Beyond Power. On Women, Men and Morals. NY: Summit, 1985.

Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland. Women, The Family, and Nazi Politics. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1987.

Stephenson, Jill. Women in Nazi Society. London: C. Helm, 1975.

Wolf, Christa. Patterns of Childhood. Trans. U. Molinaro/H. Rappolt. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.

 

EAST GERMANY

von Ankum, Katharina. "Political Bodies: Women and Re/Production in the GDR." Women in German Yearbook 9. Eds.

J. Clausen and S. Friedrichsmeyer. Lincoln: U. of Nebraska Press, 1993. 127-144.

Berghahn, V.R. Modern Germany: Society, Economy & Politics in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982.

Burant, Stephen, ed. East Germany: A Country Study. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. Washington DC: U.S.

Govt. Printing Office, 1988.

Craig, Gordon. "Politics in a New Key." "Literature and Society." In his The Germans. New York: Meridian, 1991.

Fulbrook, Mary. Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR 1949-1989. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.

Hell, Julia. Post-Fascist Fantasies: Psychoanalysis, History and the Lit. of East Germany. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1997.

Herminghouse, Patricia. "Legal Equality and Women's Reality in the German Democratic Republic." In: German Feminism:

Readings in Politics and Literature. Eds. E. Altbach et al.. Albany: State Univ. of NY Press, 1984.

Special Section, The Economist: "A Survey of Germany. Divided Still." Nov. 9-15th, 1996.

Sudau, Christel. "Women in the GDR." New German Critique 13 (Winter 1978). 69-82.

 

EAST GERMAN FILM

Allan, Sean & John Sandford, ed.. DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992. New York: Berghahn, 1999.

Bahr, Gisela. "Film and Consciousness: The Depiction of Women in East German Movies." In: Sandra Frieden, et al., eds.,

Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions. Vol. 1. Providence: Berg, 1993. 125-40.

Bisky, Lothar. "Mass Media and the Socialization of Young People in the GDR." Studies in GDR Culture and Society 7. Lanham, MD:

Univ. Press of America, 1987.

Byg, Barton. "What Might Have Been: DEFA Films of the Past and Future." Cineaste 17.4 (Summer 1990): 9-15.

The Cinema of Eastern Germany: The View from North America. DEFA Conference Reading Packet. Univ. of Massachusetts

DEFA Film Library, October 1997.

Kino, Special Issue 64/65 (September 1997).

Kohlhaase, Wolfgang. "Some Remarks about GDR Cinema." Studies in GDR Culture and Society 7. Lanham, MD: Univ.

Press of America, 1987.

Leonhard, Sigrun D. "Testing the Borders: East German Film Between Individualism and Social Commitment." Post New

Wave Cinema in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Ed. Daniel J. Goulding. Bloomington: Indiana U. P. 1989.

Liehm, Mira and Antonin J. Liehm. The Most Important Art: Soviet Union and Eastern European Film After 1945. Berkeley:

U. of California Press, 1977. (Sections on East German Film and Socialist Realism)

Silberman, Marc. "Post-Wall Documentaries: New Images from a New Germany?" Cinema Journal 33.2 (Winter 1994): 22-41.

 

FASSBINDER, WENDERS, HERZOG

Elsaesser,Thomas. Fassbinder's Germany. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univ. Press, 1996.

Goethe Institut.Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Writer, Actor, Filmmaker 1945-1982. Exhibit. R. W. Fassbinder Foundation, 1992.

Krauss, R. & A. Michelson. October. 21. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982.

McCormick, Ruth, translator. Fassbinder. [orig. Fassbinder Reihe Film 2, Carl Hanser Verlag]. New York: Tanam Press, 1981.

Rayns, Tony, ed. Fassbinder. London: BFI, 1980.

Rheuban, Joyce, Ed. The Marriage of Maria Braun. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Töteberg, Michael, and Leo A. Lensing, eds. The Anarchy of the Imagination. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1992.

Graf, Alexander . The Cinema of Wim Wenders: The Celluloid Highway . Paperback, Wallflower Press, 2002

Cook, Roger F. The Cinema of Wim Wenders: Image, Narrative, and the Postmodern Condition .Wayne State University Press, 1997

Cronin, Paul (ed.), Werner Herzog. Herzog on Herzog. Faber and Faber, 2003.

Corrigan, Timothy. The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History. Routledge, 1987.

 

FEMINIST THEORY--GENERAL

Altbach, Edith, et al. German Feminism: Readings in Politics and Literature. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1984.

Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York: Dell, 1963.

Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1982.

Horney, Karen. Feminine Psychology. New York: Norton, 1967.

 

FEMINIST FILM & FILM THEORY/GENDER STUDIES

de Lauretis, Teresa. Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1984.

Haskell, Molly. From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies. Baltimore: Penguin, 1974.

Kaplan, E. Ann. Women & Film: Both Sides of the Camera. New York: Methuen, 1983.

Kay, Karyn & Gerald Peary. Women and the Cinema. New York: Dutton, 1977.

Kosta, Barbara. Recasting Autobiography: Women's Counterfictions in Contemp. Germ. Lit. & Film. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, '94.

Kuhn, Annette. Women's Pictures: Feminism & Cinema. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.

McCormick, Richard. Politics of the Self: Feminism and the Postmodern in West German Literature & Film. Princeton U.P., 1991.

Petro, Patrice. Joyless Streets: Women & Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany. Princeton U.P., 1989.

Rosen, Marjorie. Popcorn Venus. New York: Avon, 1974.

Theweleit, Klaus. Male Phantasies. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press.

 

JOURNALS

New German Critique (14, 24-5, 32-3, 34), Jump Cut, Camera Obscura, Discourse, Screen, Monthly Film Bulletin, Sight& Sound


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