German Cinema at McDaniel College
Bibliography
1. Articles On German Film Shown in Class
2. Books on Expressionist German Cinema
5. New German Comedies
3. Books on Film in the Third Reich
6. Books on Film Theory and Analysis
4. Books New German Cinema
7. Journals

1. Articles On German Film Shown in Class

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror
The Last Laugh
Metropolis
Triumph of the Will
Jew Suess
Murderers Are Among Us
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Germany, Pale Mother
The Promise
Men
Makin’ Up
Maybe, Maybe Not
Beyond Silence
Run Lola Run

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary (Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari) Top of Page

  • Barlow, John D. "Caligari and ‘Caligarism’." German Expressionist Film. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982. 29-63.
  • Eisner, Lotte. "The Beginnings of the expressionist Film." The Haunted Screen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. 17-27.
  • Kracauer, Siegfried. "Caligari." From Caligari to Hitler, a Psychological History of the German Film. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1947. 61-76.
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) Top of Page
  • Eisner, Lotte. "The Symphonies of Horror." The Haunted Screen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. 95-107.
  • Kracauer, Siegfried. "Procession of Tyrants." From Caligari to Hitler, a Psychological History of the German Film. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1947. 77-79.
The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann) Top of Page
  • Barlow, John D. "Der letzte Mann, 1924." German Expressionist Film. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982. 145-155.
  • Eisner, Lotte. "Murnau and the Kammerspielfilm." The Haunted Screen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. 207-221.
  • Silverman, Marc. "The Modernist Camera and Cinema Illusion: Friedrich Murnau’s The Last Laugh." German Cinema. Texts in Context. Detroit: Wayne University Press, 1995. 198-213
Metropolis (Metropolis) Top of Page
  • Barlow, John D. "Metropolis, 1926." German Expressionist Film. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982. 118-133.
  • Eisner, Lotte. "Metropolis 1925-26." Fritz Lang. Berkeley: New York: Da Capo Press, 1986.83-94.
  • Eisner, Lotte. "The Handling of Crowds." The Haunted Screen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. 223-236.
Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) Top of Page
  • Barsam, Richard. Triumph of the Will. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1975.
  • Chulte-Sasse, Linda. "Leni Riefenstahl’s Feature Films and the Question of a Fascist Aesthetic." Framing the Past. The Historiography of German Cinema and Television. Bruce A. Murray and Christopher J. Wickham, eds. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992
  • Eisner, Lotte. "The Decline of the German Film." The Haunted Screen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. 335-337.
  • Hinton, David B. The Films of Leni Riefenstahl. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978
  • Infield, Glen B. Leni Riefenstahl: The Fallen Goddess. New York:Crowell, 1976.
Jew Suess (Jud Süß) Top of Page
  • Hull, David Stewart. "1939-1940: The Antisemitic Film." Film in the Third Reich. Art and Propaganda in Nazi Germany. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973. 157-177
  • Rentschler, Eric. "The Elective Other: Jew Suess (1940)." The Ministry of Illusion. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. 149-170
  • Schulte-Sasse, Linda. "Courtier, Vampire, or Vermin? Jew Süß’s Contradictory Effort to Render the "Jew" Other." Perspectives on German Cinema. Terri Ginsberg and Kirsten Moana Thompson, eds. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1996. 184-220.
  • Welch, David. "The Image of the Enemy." Propaganda and the German Cinema 1933-1945. Oxford: Claredon Press, 1985. 278-292
Murderers Are Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns) Top of Page
  • Ott, Friedrick W. "Die Mörder sind unter uns/ The Murderer Among Us." The Great German Films. From Before World War I to the Present. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1986. 240-242
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun) Top of Page
  • Kaes, Anton. "The Presence of the Past: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun.". From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. 73-103
  • Rheuban, Joyce. "The Marriage of Maria Braun: History, Melodrama, Ideology." Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions. Vol II: German Film History/ German History on Film. Sandra Frieden et al., eds. Providence, Oxford: Berg, 1993. 207-226
  • Haralovich, Mary Beth. "The Sexual Politics of The Marriage of Maria Braun." Perspectives on German Cinema. Terri Ginsberg and Kirsten Moana Thompson, eds. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1996. 378-390.
Germany, Pale Mother (Deutschland, bleiche Mutter) Top of Page
  • Bammer, Angelika. "Through a Daughter’s Eyes: Helma Sanders-Brahm’s Germany, Pale Mother." New German Critique 36 (1985): 91-109.
  • McCormick, Richard. "Confronting German History: Melodrama, Distantiation, and Women’s Discourse in Germany, Pale Mother." Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions. Vol II: German Film History/ German History on Film. Sandra Frieden et al., eds. Providence, Oxford: Berg, 1993. 185-206
  • Hyams, Barbara. "Is the Apolitical Woman at Peace?: A Reading of the Fairy Tale in Germany, Pale Mother." Perspectives on German Cinema. Terri Ginsberg and Kirsten Moana Thompson, eds. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1996. 346-360.
  • Kaes, Anton. "Our Childhood, Ourselves", From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. 137-160
  • Kaplan, E. Ann. "The Search for the Mother/Land in Sanders-Brahm’s Germany, Pale Mother." German Film and Literature: Adaptations and Transformations, ed. Eric Rentschler. New York: Methuen, 1986. 289-304.
  • Linville, Susan E. "The Mother-Daughter Plot in History: Helma Sanders-Brahm’s Germany, Pale Mother." Feminism, Film, Fascism. Women’s Auto/ Biographical Film in Postwar Germany. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. 41-63
  • Möhrmann, Renate. "’Germany, Pale Mother’: On the Mother Figures in New German Women’s Film." Women in German Yearbook 11 (1995): 67-80.
  • Morewedge, Rosmarie Thee. "’The Robber Bridegroom’ in Helma Sanders-Brahms’s film Deutschland, bleiche Mutter: Erzähltes Märchen und erlebtes Greuelmärchen." Framing the Past. The Historiography of German Cinema and Television. Bruce A. Murray and Christopher J. Wickham, eds. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992. 231-239
The Promise (Das Versprechen) Top of Page
  •  Adamek, Pauline. “Interview with Margarethe von Trotta.” Goethe-Institute Montreal, October 3, 1995 [http://www.goethe.de/uk/mon/entrotta.htm]
  • Kinzer, Stephen. “The Wall is Back as a Movie (and Still a Divider).” New York Times, March 6, 1995
  • “The Promise”, a review by Goethe-Institute Montreal [http://www.goethe.de/uk/mon/archiv/enverspr.htm]
  • Shulgasser, Barbara. “When the walls come tumbling down.” Examiner Movie Critic, November 17, 1995 [http://www.sfgate.com/ea/shulgasser/1117.4.html]
  • Walsh, David. “Margarethe von Trotta's The Promise: The Berlin Wall comes between two lovers.” The World Socialist Web Site, November 25, 1995 [http://www.wsws.org/arts/1995/sep1995/trot-s95.shtml]
Men (Männer) Top of Page
  • Phillips, Klaus. “Interview with Doris Dörrie: Filmmaker, Writer, Teacher.” Triangulated Visions. Women in Recent German Cinema.
  • Majer O’Sickey and von Zadow, eds. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998. 173-182
  • http://castle.UVic.CA/german/439/doerrie.html (Information about Doris Dörrie)
  • http://www.german-cinema.de/magazine/1999/02/germdirect/doerrie.html (Portrait of Doris Dörrie)
Makin’ Up (Abgeschminkt) Top of Page
  •  Caprio, Temby. “Women’s Cinema in the Nineties: Abgeschminkt! And Happy Ends?”, Seminar 33:4 (November 1997). 374-387.
Maybe, Maybe Not (Der bewegte Mann) Top of Page
  • Beck, HenryCabot. “Slapstick farce from Germany,” The Star-Ledger, June 28, 1996 [http://www.nj.com/marquee/reviews_new/maybe.html]
  • Busack, Richard von. “Farce From the Madding Crowd. German Sex Comedy Swings Open Closet Doors”, Metroactive, [http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.18.96/maybe-not-9629.html]
Beyond Silence (Jenseits der Stille) Top of Page
  • Chase, Andrea. “Beyond Silence, Movie Review”, Movie Magazine International, 1998 [http://www.shoestring.org/mmi_revs/beyondsilence.html
  • Movieweb. “Beyond Sielnce”, Review, Stills and Cast [http://www.movieweb.com/movie/beyondsil/index.html]
  • Stein, Elizabeth “Beyond Silence” A Review, Movie-Reviews.Com [http://www.movie-reviews.com/beyondsi.htm]
Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) Top of Page
  • Adams, Sam. “Run Lola Run”, Philadelphia Citypaper, [http://www.citypaper.net/movies/r/runlolarun.shtml]
  • Goldberg, Michelle. “Tom Tykwer's 'Run Lola Run' Mixes Hong Kong Action with European Philosophy”, Metroactive [http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/06.24.99/runlolarun-9925.html]
  • Howe, Desson. “’Run Lola Run’: Catch It”, Washington Post, July 2, 1999
  • Sony Movie Classics, “Run Lola Run.” [http://www.spe.sony.com/classics/runlolarun/runlolarun.html]
  • Wunder, Paul. “Run Lola Run.” Screening Room Film reviews by Paul Wunder [http://www.pwunder.com/reviews/runlola.html
2. Expressionist German Cinema in the Weimar Republic Top of Page
  • Barlow, John D. German Expressionist Film. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982. [On Reserve]
  • Eisner, Lotte. The Haunted Screen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. [On Reserve]
  • Eisner, Lotte. Fritz Lang. New York: Da Capo Press, 1986.[On Reserve]
  • Kracauer, Siegfried. From Caligari to Hitler, a Psychological History of the German Film. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1947. [On Reserve]
  • Kreimer, Klaus. The UFA Story. A History of Germany’s Greatest Film Company 1918-1945. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. Murray, Bruce A. Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic. From Caligari to Kuhle Wumpe. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990
  • Plummer, Thomas G., ed. Film and Politics in the Weimar Republic. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1982.
3. Film in the Third Reich Top of Page
  • Hull, David Stewart. Film in the Third Reich. Art and Propaganda in Nazi Germany. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973 [On Reserve]
  • Welch, David. Propaganda and the German Cinema 1933-1945. Oxford: Clarendon, 1985. [On Reserve]
  • Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996
4. New German Cinema Top of Page
  • Corrigan, Timothy. New German Film: The Displaced Image. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1983.
  • Elsaesser, Thomas. New German Cinema. A History. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989.[On Reserve]
  • Fehrenbach, Heide. Cinema in Democratizing Germany. Chapel Hill, London: University of North Carolina Press, 1995
  • Franklin, James. New German Cinema: From Oberhausen to Hamburg. Boston: Twayne, 1983. [On Reserve]
  • Frieden, Sandra et al., eds. Gender and German Cinema. Feminist Interventions. 2 vols. Providence, Oxford: Berg, 1993
  • Kaes, Anton. From Hitler to Heimat. The Return of History as Film. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. [On Reserve]
  • Knight, Julia. Women and the new German Cinema. London, New York: Verso, 1992
  • Kolker, Robert Phillip and Peter Beicken, The Films of Wim Wenders: cinema as vision and desire. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993
  • Linville, Susan E. Feminism, Film, Fascism. Women’s Auto/ Biographical Film in Postwar Germany. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.
  • Majer O’Sickey, Ingeborg and Angeborg von Zadow, eds. Triangulated Visions. Women in Recent German Cinema. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998
  • Manvell, Roger and Heinrich Fraenkel. The German Cinema. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971.
  • Murray, Bruce A. and Christopher J. Wickham, eds. Framing the Past. The Historiography of German Cinema and Television. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992
  • Pflaum, Hans G. and Hans H. Prinzler. Cinema in the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn: Inter Nationes, 1993. [On Reserve]
  • Rentschler, Eric, West German Film in the Course of Time. New York: Redgrave, 1984. [On Reserve]
  • Rentschler, Eric, ed. German Film and Literature. New York: Methuen, 1986.
  • Rentschler, Eric, ed.. West German Filmmakers on Film: Vision and Voices. New York: Homes & Meier, 1988.
  • Sandford, John. The New German Cinema. Totowa: Barnes & Noble Books, 1980
  • Santner, Eric L. Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in postwar Germany. Ithaka: Cornell University Press, 1990
  • Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies. Special Theme Issue on Recent German Film. 33.4 (November 1997). [On Reserve]
  • Silverman, Marc. German Cinema. Texts in Context. Detroit: Wayne University Press, 1995
5. New German Comedies Top of Page
  • Coury, David. "From Aesthetics to Commercialism: Narration and the New German Comedy", Seminar 33:4 (November 1997). 356-373.
  • Caprio, Temby. "Women’s Cinema in the Nineties: Abgeschminkt! And Happy Ends?", Seminar 33:4 (November 1997). 374-387.
  • Phillips, Klaus. "Interview with Doris Dörrie: Filmmaker, Writer, Teacher." Triangulated Visions. Women in Recent German Cinema. Ingeborg Majer O’Sickey and Angeborg von Zadow, eds. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998. 173-182

  • Angier, Carole. "Always the Outsider." Sight and Sound, January 1992.
6. Books on Introductions to Film Theory and Analysis Top of Page
  • Bordwell, David and Kristen Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. 5th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 1997. [On Reserve]
  • Kawin, Bruce F. How Movies Work. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992
  • Monaco, James. How to Read a Film. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1977.
  • Withers, Robert S. Introduction to Film. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1983.
  • Andrew, J. Dudley. Concepts in Film Theory. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1984.
  • Andrew, J. Dudley. The Major Film Theories: An Introduction. NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1976.
  • Luhr, William and Peter Lehman. Authorship and Narrative in the Cinema. New York: Putnam, 1977.
  • Wollen, Peter. Signs and Meaning in the Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1972.
7. Journals Top of Page
  • New German Critique (14, 24-5, 32-3, 34)
  • Jump Cut, Camera Obscura, Discourse, Screen, Monthly Film Bulletin, Sight & Sound,
  • Wide Angle, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1980. Special Issue on New German Cinema.

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