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German Cinema

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Finding Books on German Cinema

The subject headings below were obtained from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) available at/near the reference desk of every Library. The main LC Subject Heading for the more commonly used terms like "film" or "movies" or "cinema" is motion pictures, under which you'll find narrower headings such as Visual Anthropology Germany below.

Material on any of the course-related topics listed below can be found by entering the appropriate LC Subject Heading in the University of Toronto Catalogue (UTCat), then choosing the subject search option. Use a subject search also to find material on individual directors, e.g. Herzog, Werner (last name, first name) and films, e.g. Last Laugh (do not use articles).

• DEFA History
• Expressionism
• Feminism and motion pictures Germany
• Film noir Germany
• Germany In motion pictures
• Guilt Psychological aspects
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
• Motion picture actors and actresses Germany
• Motion picture industry Germany
• Motion picture industry Germany (East) History
• Motion pictures, American Germany Influence
• Motion pictures Censorship Germany (West)
• Motion pictures German History
• Motion pictures, German United States Influence
• Motion pictures Germany (East) History
• Motion pictures Germany Psychological aspects
• Motion pictures Germany (West) Handbooks, manuals
• Motion pictures Germany (West) History
• Motion pictures in ethnology Germany
• Motion pictures in propaganda Germany
• Motion pictures Political aspects Germany (West)
• Motion pictures Social aspects Germany (West)
• National characteristics, German, in motion pictures
• National socialism and motion pictures
• National socialism in motion pictures
• Popular culture Germany
• Propaganda, German History 20th century
• Silent films Germany
• Street films Germany
• Visual anthropology Germany
• World War, 1939-1945 Motion pictures and the war
• Women motion picture producers and directors Germany

Bibliography

Selected journals

• New German Critique (nos. 14, 24-5, 32-34)
  DD 1 .N4 ROBA, no. 1(1974)+
  
• Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Special Theme Issue on Recent German Film. Vol. 33, no. 4 (November 1997). Available at several U of T libraries.
• Wide Angle vol. 3, no. 4 (1980). Special issue on New German Cinema.

The following is a selective list of books about and/or related to the study of German film. All are available at the University of Toronto. The U of T Library System has substantial holdings of German-language material; find it by performing a subject search in UTCat using any of the headings listed above. Other resources related to German film and culture are listed under Online Resources.

Background and reference

• The BFI companion to German cinema. Edited by Thomas Elsaesser with Michael Wedel.
  PN 1993.5 .G3B485 1999 INNC, ROBA, VUPR
• Cinema: a critical dictionary. Edited by Richard Roud. 1980
  PN 1993.45 .C5 ROBA, INNR, VUPR
  Contains extended critical essays on the most important figures of the first 80 years of cinema. Emphasis on directors, but also includes film theories, criticism, movements; national cinemas, actors, screenwriters, etc.
  
• DEFA: East German cinema, 1946-1992. Edited by Seán Allan and John Sandford.
  PN 1999 .D4D34 1999 VUPT, ROBA
  
• The German cinema book. Edited by Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter and Deniz Göktürk.
  PN1993.5 .G3 G47 2002 INNC
  PN1993.5 .G3 G4359 2002 ROBA
• Hake, Sabine. German national cinema.
  PN 1993.5 .G3H25 2002 INNC, ROBA, VUPT, ERIN
  PN 1993.5 .G3H28 2002 SMC
• Helt, Richard C. and Marie E. Helt. West German cinema, 1985-1990: a reference handbook.
  PN 1993.5 .G3H436 1992 VUPR, ROBA
  
• ---. West German cinema since 1945: a reference handbook.
  PN 1993.5 .G3H435 1987 ERIN, VUPR, ROBA
  
• International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. 3rd ed. 4 vols.
  PN 1997.8 .I6 1997X GENR
  PN 1997.8 .I58 1997 VUPR
  The "Dictionary" provides encyclopedic and bibliographic information in separate volumes about selected Films; Directors; Actors and Actresses; and Writers and Production Artists. Includes bibliographies, and essays by specialists in their area.
  
• Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa story: a history of Germany's greatest film company, 1918-1945.
  PN 1999 .U35K713 1996 INNC, SCAR, ERIN, ROBA
  
• Kuhn, Annette, ed. The Women's Companion to International Film.
  PN 1993.45 .W6 1994 INNR, VUPR
  PN 1993.45 .W66 1990 GENR
  "Shaped by feminist pespectives", the "Companion" contains a section on German cinema and sections on selected German women filmmakers past and present. Entries arranged alphabetically.
  
• The Oxford history of world cinema. Edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.
  PN 1993.5 .A1O96 1996 INNR, VUPR, ROBA, TRIN, SCAR, ERIN,
  
• Sorlin, Pierre. European cinemas, European societies, 1939-1990.
  PN 1993 .5 E8S67 1991 ROBA, VUPT
  
• Vincendeau, Ginette, ed. Encyclopedia of European Cinema.
  PN 1993.5 .E8E6 1995 INNR, GENR, VUPR, SMCR
  Contains two main sections: The German Cinema as Image and Idea, and The German Cinema: Popular Genres; alphabetically arranged entries on personnel, critical concepts, and institutions; and appendices on production and audience statistics in Europe and a select bibliography on European and German cinema.
  
• West German filmmakers on film: visions and voices. Edited by Eric Rentschler.
  PN 1993.5 .G3W44 1988 INNC, VUPT, ROBA, ERIN, SCAR
  
• Women filmmakers and their films. Edited by Amy Unterburger.
  PN 1998.2 .W66 1998 INNR, GENR, VUPR
  This first edition "comprises more than 190 entries on women filmmakers, a category that encompasses not only directors but also women in many important behind-the-camera vocations. . . . It is intended to represent a wide range of interests within North American and European film scholarship and criticism." Each entry consists of a brief biography, a complete filmography, a selected bibliography of works on and by the entrant, and an expository essay by a specialist in the field. Incl. film title and nationality indexes
  
• Zonal Film Archives (Hamburg, Germany). Catalogue of forbidden German feature and short film productions held in Zonal Film Archives of Film Section, Information Services Division, Control Commission for Germany, (BE) Original text by John F. Kelson.
  PN 1995.65 .G5Z66 1996 ROBA

Theory, analysis, criticism

• Ascheid, Antje. Hitler's heroines: stardom and womanhood in Nazi cinema.
  PN1995.9 .N36 A83 2002 INNC, NEWC, ROBA
• Barlow, John D. German expressionist film. 1982.
  PN 1993.5 G3 B314 ROBA, SCAR, ERIN
  
• Boa, Elizabeth. Heimat: a German dream: regional loyalties and national identity in German culture, 1890-1990.
  PT 749 .N27B63 2000 ROBA
  
• Byg, Barton. Landscapes of resistance: the German films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.
  PN 1998.3 .S77B94 1995 INNC, ROBA, ERIN
  
• Coates, Paul. The Gorgon's gaze: German cinema, expressionism, and the image of horror.
  PN 1993.5 .G3C53 1991 INNC, ROBA
  PN 1993.5 .G3C64 1991 SMC, ERIN, VUPT
  
• Collier, Jo Leslie. From Wagner to Murnau: the transposition of romanticism from stage to screen.
  PN 1998.3 .M87C6 1988 ROBA, VUPT
  
• Corrigan, Timothy. New German film: the displaced image.
  PN 1993.5 .G3C59 1994 ROBA, ERIN, SCAR, VUPT
  
• Cultural history through a National Socialist lens: essays on the cinema of the Third Reich. Edited by Robert C. Reimer.
  PN 1995.9 .N36C85 2000 SCAR, VUPT, ROBA
  
• Davidson, John E. Deterritorializing the new German cinema.
  PN 1993.5 .G3D34 1999 INNC, ROBA
  
• Deutschland im Spiegel seiner Filme. (Contributions in English or German.) Edited by Martin Brady and Helen Hughes.
  PN 1993.5 .G3D48 2000 ROBA
• Eisner, Lotte H. The haunted screen: expressionism in the German cinema and the influence of Max Reinhardt.
  PN 1993.5 .G3E513 1973 INNC, VUPT, ROBA, SCAR, ERIN
  791.430943 .E36H OISE/UT
  
• Elsaesser, Thomas. Fassbinder's Germany: history, identity, subject.
  PN 1998.3 .F37E47 1996 INNC, ROBA
  
• ---. New German cinema: a history.
  PN 1993.5 .G3E57 1989 INNC, SMC, VUPT, ERIN, SCAR, ROBA
  
• ---. Weimar cinema and after: Germany's historical imaginary.
  PN 1993.5 .G3E58 2000 INNC, VUPT, ROBA
  
• Fehrenbach, Heide. Cinema in democratizing Germany: reconstructing national identity after Hitler.
  PN 1993.5 .G3F35 1995 ERIN, SCAR, VUPT, ROBA
  
• Feinstein, Joshua. The triumph of the ordinary: depictions of daily life in the East German cinema, 1949-1989.
  PN 1993.5 .G3F37 2002X ROBA
  
• Film and politics in the Weimar Republic. Thomas G. Plummer et al, eds.
  PN 1993.5 .G3F52 1982 ERIN
  
• The Films of Hellmuth Costard. Compiled and edited by Jan Dawson.
  PN 1998.3 .C69D38 1979 INNC, ROBA
  
• Fox, Jo. Filming women in the Third Reich.
  PN 1995.9 .W6F69 2000 INNC, SCAR, ROBA, VUPT
  
• Fox, Thomas C. Stated memory: East Germany and the Holocaust.
  DS 135 .G332F69 1999 ERIN, ROBA
  
• Framing the past: the historiography of German cinema and television. Edited by Bruce A. Murray and Christopher J. Wickham.
  PN 1993.5 .G3F67 1992 INNC, ROBA, VUPT, SMC
  
• Franklin, James C. New German cinema: from Oberhausen to Hamburg. 1983.
  PN 1993.5 .G3F7 VUPT, ROBA, SCAR, ERIN
  
• Gemünden, Gerd. Framed visions: popular culture, Americanization, and the contemporary German and Austrian imagination.
  NX 550 .A1G385 1998X ROBA
  
• Gender and German cinema: feminist interventions. 2 vols. Edited by Sandra Frieden ... [et al.].
  PN 1993.5 .G3G357 1993 INNC, VUPT, ERIN, ROBA
  • v. 1. Gender and representation in new German cinema
  • v. 2. German film history/German history on film.
• German film & literature: adaptations and transformations. Edited by Eric Rentschler.
  PN 1993.5 .G3G36 1986 ERIN, ROBA, VUPT, SCAR
  
• Hake, Sabine. Passions and deceptions: the early films of Ernst Lubitsch
  PN 1998.3 .L83H35 1992 INNC, ROBA, VUPT
• ---. Popular cinema of the Third Reich.
  PN 1995.9 .N36H34 2001 ROBA, VUPT
• Hoffmann, Hilmar. The triumph of propaganda: film and national socialism, 1933-1945.
  PN 1995.9 .N36H6413 1996X ROBA
  
• Hollywood in Europe: experiences of a cultural hegemony. Edited by David W. Ellwood, Rob Kroes.
  PN 1993.5 .E8H647 1994 ROBA
  
• Hull, David Stewart. Film in the Third Reich; a study of the German cinema, 1933-1945. 1969
  PN 1993.5 .G3H8 TRIN, INNC, ERI, SCC, ROBA
  791.430943 .H913F OISE/UT
  
• Kaes, Anton. From Hitler to Heimat: the return of history as film.
  PN 1993.5 .G3K2913 1989 INNC, SMC, ERIN, ROBA, TRIN, ROBA, SCAR, VUPT
  
• Kester, Bernadette. Film Front Weimar: representations of the First World War in German films of the Weimar period (1919-1933).
  PN 1993.5 .G3 K47 2003 INNC
• Knight, Julia. Women and the new German cinema.
  PN 1993.5 .G3K58 1992 INNC, SMC, SCAR, VUPT, ROBA, NEWC, ERIN
  
• Koch, Gertrud. Siegfried Kracauer: an introduction.
  PT 2621 .R135Z7613 2000 INNC, ROBA
  
• Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter). The dark mirror: German cinema between Hitler and Hollywood.
  PN 1993.5 .G3K645 2002 INNC, ROBA
  
• Kracauer, Siegfried. From Caligari to Hitler: a psychological history of the German film.1947.
  PN 1993.5 .G3K7 INNC, VUPT, ROBA, SMC, ERIN, SCC
  791.430943 .K89F OISE/UT
  
• Kuzniar, Alice A. The queer German cinema.
  PN 1995.9 .H55K89 2000 INNC, ROBA
  
• Leiser, Erwin. Nazi cinema. 1947.
  PN 1993 .5 G3L3813 INNC, ERIN, ROBA, SCAR
  PN 1993.5 .G3 L38 SMC
  
• Light motives: German popular film in perspective. Edited by Randall Halle and Margaret McCarthy.
  PN1993.5 .G3 L54 2003X ROBA
• Linville, Susan E. Feminism, film, fascism: women's auto/biographical film in postwar Germany.
  PN 1993.5 .G3L56 1998 INNC, NEWC, ROBA
  
• Manvell, Roger. The German cinema. 1971.
  PN 1993 .5 G3M3 ROBA, INNC, SMC, ERIN, SCAR
  791.430943 M295G OISE/UT
  
• McCormick, Richard W. Gender and sexuality in Weimar modernity: film, literature, and "new objectivity".
  PN 1993.5 .G3M39 2002X
  
• Meurer, Hans Joachim. Cinema and national identity in a divided Germany, 1979-1989: the split screen.
  PN 1993.5 .G3M48 2000X ROBA
  
• Moeller, Felix. The film minister: Goebbels and the cinema in the Third Reich.
  PN 1993.5 .G3M6413 2000 ROBA
  
• Monaco, Paul. Cinema and society: France and Germany during the Twenties. 1976.
  PN 1995.9 .S6M6 ROBA, SCC, ERI
  
• Murray, Bruce Arthur. Film and the German left in the Weimar Republic: from Caligari to Kuhle Wampe.
  PN 1993.5 .G3M87 1990 SCAR, INNC, ROBA, VUPT, ERIN
  
• Naughton, Leonie. That was the wild East: film culture, unification, and the "new" Germany.
  PN 1993.5 .G3N28 2002X ROBA, SMC, ERIN
  
• New German filmmakers: from Oberhausen through the 1970s. Edited by Klaus Phillips.
  PN 1993.5 .G3N48 1984 INNC, ROBA
  
• Oksiloff, Assenka. Picturing the primitive: visual culture, ethnography, and early German cinema.
  GN 347 .O38 2001X ROBA
  
• Ott, Frederick W. The great German films.
  PN 1993.5 .G3O88 1986 VUPT, ROBA
  
• Peripheral visions: the hidden stages of Weimar cinema. Kenneth S. Calhoon, ed.
  PN 1993.5 .G3P39 2001X ROBA, SMC
  
• Perspectives on German cinema. Edited by Terri Ginsberg and Kirsten Moana Thompson.
  PN 1993.5 .G3P42 1996X ROBA
  
• Petley, Julian. Capital and culture: German cinema, 1933-1945.
  PN 1993.5 .G3P476 INNC, ROBA
  
• Petro, Patrice. Aftershocks of the new: feminism and film history.
  PN 1995.9 .W6P485 2002 NEWC, ROBA
  
• ---. Joyless streets: women and melodramatic representation in Weimar Germany.
  PN 1993.5 .G3P48 1989 INNC, ROBA
  PN 1993.5 .G3P435 1989 VUPT, ERIN
  
• Pflaum, Hans Günther. Germany on film: theme and content in the cinema of the Federal Republic of Germany.
  PN 1993.5 .G3P4413 1990 VUPT
  PN 1993.5 .G3P4913 1990 ROBA
  
• Reimer, Robert C. and Carol J. Reimer. Nazi-retro film: how German narrative cinema remembers the past.
  PN 1995.9 .N36R45 1992 VUPT, ROBA
  
• Rentschler, Eric. The ministry of illusion: Nazi cinema and its afterlife.
  PN 1995.9 .N36R46 1996 ERIN, VUPT, SCAR, ROBA
  
• ---. West German film in the course of time: reflections on the twenty years since Oberhausen.
  PN 1993.5 .G3R44 1984 ERIN, SCAR, ROBA
  
• Rhiel, Mary. Re-viewing Kleist: the discursive construction of authorial subjectivity in West German Kleist films.
  PT 2379 .Z5R45 1991 ROBA
  
• Romani, Cinzia. Tainted goddesses: female film stars of the Third Reich [Dive del terzo Reich].
  PN 1995.9 .W6R5513 2001
• Sandford, John. The new German cinema.
  PN 1993.5 .G3S3 1980 INNC, VUPT, ROBA, SMC, ERIN, SCAR
  
• Santner, Eric L. Stranded objects: mourning, memory, and film in postwar Germany.
  PN 1993.5 .G3S33 1990 ROBA, INNC, SCAR, ERIN, VUPT
• Saunders, Thomas J. Hollywood in Berlin: American cinema and Weimar Germany.
  PN 1993.5 .G3S34 1994 ROBA, INNC, VUPT, ROBA
  
• Schulte-Sasse, Linda. Entertaining the Third Reich: illusions of wholeness in Nazi cinema.
  PN 1995.9 .N36S38 1996 SMC, ERIN, SCAR, VUPT, ROBA
  
• A Second life: German cinema's first decades. Edited by Thomas Elsaesser, with Michael Wedel.
  PN 1993.5 .G3S42 1996 INNC, ROBA
  
• Shandley, Robert R. Rubble films: German cinema in the shadow of the Third Reich.
  PN 1993.5 .G3S53 2001 INNC, VUPT, SCAR, ROBA
  
• Silberman, Marc. German cinema: texts in context.
  PN 1993.5 .G3S54 1995 INNC, ERIN, ROBA
  
• Taylor, Richard. Film propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany.
  PN 1993.5 .R9T25 1998 VUPT, ROBA
  
• Textual responses to German unification: processing historical and social change in literature and film. Edited by Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson, Kristie A. Foell.
  PT 405 .T435 2001 ROBA
  
• Triangulated visions: women in recent German cinema. Edited by Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey and Ingeborg von Zadow.
  PN 1995.9 .W6T75 1998 INNC, NEWC, VUPT, ROBA
  
• Wager, Jans B. Dangerous dames: women and representation in the Weimar street film and film noir.
  PN 1995.9 .F44W35 1999 INNC, SCAR, ROBA
  
• Weinberger, Gabriele. Nazi Germany and its aftermath in women directors' autobiographical films of the late 1970s: in the murderers' house.
  PN 1995.9 .N36W44 1992 ERIN, ROBA
  
• Weiss, Andrea. Vampires & violets : lesbians in the cinema.
  PN 1995.9 .L48W45 1992 INNC, ROBA
  
• Welch, David. Propaganda and the German cinema, 1933-1945.
  PN 1995.9 .N36W45 2001 ROBA,SM
  
• Wollenberg, Hans H. Fifty years of German film.
  PN 1993.5 .G3W63 1972 ROBA, SCAR
  791.43 .L776 ser. 2 no.11 OISE/UT

Online Resources

The following is a selective list of online resources related to the study of German film. Check UTCat for the availability of material found in bibliographies at other institutions.

• Cold-War German Cinema (Special issue of Film History: an international journal v. 18:1 (2006))
• The DEFA Film Library/Cinema of East Germany at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The DEFA Film Library is the only archive and study center outside Europe devoted to the study of the cinema of the former GDR as well as films dealing with East Germany since unification.
• filmportal.de (Deutsches Filminstitut)
• Fritz Lang: Master of Darkness (BFI) Incl. article, interview (excerpt), filmography, bibliography, links to other online resources.
• German/Austrian Cinema: A Selected Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library (incl. works on individual filmmakers) Extensive general bibliography (books & articles) as well as bibliographies (books & articles) on individual directors and links to other online German film resources.
• German Films (German Films Service + Marketing GmbH)
• German Studies Web: Theater, Film & Performing Arts (ACRL)
• German Women Filmmakers - Selected Bibliography (Elaine Martin, U. of Alabama)
• Goethe Institut: Film Guide
• Werner Herzog (BFI) A short, selected bibliography.

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