O'Brien has taken the fall of the Wall as the starting point of her cinematic history and argues
persuasively that “1989 has replaced 1945 as designating the primary caesura of recent …

The last couple of years have seen an amplification of interest in German Cinema within
Anglo-American film scholarship. During the past two decades of its post-reunification …

These two recently published volumes on German cinema focus respectively on the
portrayal of German history on film and the history of German cinema. Mary-Elizabeth …

With the sudden collapse of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1989, the already
charged debates about Germany's national identity became even more complicated. In her …

Since unification, a radical shift has taken place in Germans' view of their country's
immediate past, with 1989 replacing 1945 as the primary caesura. The cold-war division, the …

This book, largely based on the author's 2008 doctoral dissertation at Harvard Uni versity, is
part of a growing body of work exploring contemporary German cinema. In both its title and …

Counterfeiters, 2007) all won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. These
films have also received much critical attention from established film critics like Katja …

Something-one can no longer deny it-is happening in German film studies. A discipline that
for the longest time studied German national cinema primarily as an historical phenomenon …

The German cinema of the 1920s is generally pigeon-holed as part of the culture of the
Weimar Republic (1919-33). And because Weimar culture--described variously as …

JENNIFER M. KAPCZYNSKI his issue examines two contradictory tendencies in recent
German feature films: the trend, on one hand, toward nostalgic works of displacement, from …