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1 online resource (vi, 326 pages) : illustrations. |
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online resource cr |
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Introduction: toward generic histories: film genre, genre theory, and German film studies / Jaimey Fisher -- Parallel modernities: from haunted screen to universal horror / Gerd Gemunden -- The essay film and its German variations / Nora M. Alter -- The limits of futurity: German science fiction film in the course of time / Lutz Koepnick -- The situation is hopeless, but not desperate: UFA's early sound film musicals / Eric Rentschler -- Resisting the war (film): Wicki's "masterpiece" Die Brucke (1959) and its generic transformations / Jaimey Fisher -- Ironizing identity: the German crime genre and the Edgar Wallace production trend of the 1960s / Sascha Gerhards -- From Siodmak to Schlingensief: the return of history as horror / Kris Vander Lugt -- Producing adaptations: Bernd Eichinger, Christiane F., and German film history / Hester Baer -- Exceptional thrills: genrification, Dr. Mabuse, and Das Experiment / Steve Choe -- The Heimat film in the twenty-first century: negotiating the New German cinema to return to Papas Kino / Paul Cooke -- The romantic comedy and its other: representations of romance in German cinema since 1990 / Antje Ascheid -- Yearning for genre: the films of Dominik Graf / Marco Abel. |
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English. |
ISBN |
9781571138705 (electronic bk.) |
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1571138706 (electronic bk.) |
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1299941109 (electronic bk.) |
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9781299941106 (electronic bk.) |
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1580468225 |
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9781580468220 |
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9781571135704 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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1571135707 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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