This comprehensively revised updated and significantly extended edition introduces German film
history from its beginnings to the present day covering key periods and movements including
early and silent cinema Weimar cinema Nazi cinema the New German Cinema the Berlin School
the cinema of migration and moving images in the digital era. Contributions by leading
international scholars are grouped into sections that focus on genre stars authorship film
production distribution and exhibition theory and politics including women's and queer
cinema and transnational connections. Spotlight articles within each section offer key case
studies including of individual films that illuminate larger histories (Heimat Downfall The
Lives of Others The Edge of Heaven and many more) stars from Ossi Oswalda and Hans Albers to
Hanna Schygulla and Nina Hoss directors including F.W. Murnau Walter Ruttmann Wim Wenders
and Helke Sander and film theorists including Siegfried Kracauer and Béla Balázs. The volume
provides a methodological template for the study of a national cinema in a transnational
horizon.
