Introduction: Critical Film History and German Studies
PART ONE: EARLY GERMAN FILM HISTORY 1895-1918
Early German Film History 1895-1918: Historical Overview
Der Student von Prag (1913) and Learning to Look
PART TWO: WEIMAR CINEMA 1919-1933
Weimar Cinema 1919-1933: Historical Overview
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) or Film as Hypnosis
Der letzte Mann (1924) or Learning to Move
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (1926): The Birth of the Feature-Length Animation Film
Metropolis (1927) or Technology and Sex
Der blaue Engel (1930) and Learning to Talk
M (1931) or Sound and Terror
PART THREE: NAZI CINEMA 1933-1945
Nazi Cinema 1933-1945: Historical Overview
Triumph des Willens (1935): Documentary and Propaganda
Hallo Janine (1939): Dancing and Singing to Happiness
Die große Liebe (1942) or Love and War
PART FOUR: GERMAN CINEMA AT THE ZERO HOUR 1945-1949
German Cinema at the Zero Hour 1945-1949: Historical Overview
Die Mörder sind unter uns (1946): The Rubble Film
PART FIVE: POSTWAR EAST GERMAN CINEMA 1949-1989
Postwar East German Cinema 1949-1989: Historical Overview
Sonnensucher (1958) or Searching for the Socialist Sun
Spur der Steine (1966) or Traces of Repression
Die Legende von Paul und Paula (1973) or East Germany in the '70s
Solo Sunny (1980) or Even Socialism Can't Stave Off Loneliness
PART SIX: POSTWAR WEST GERMAN CINEMA 1949-1989
Postwar West German Cinema 1949-1989: Historical Overview
Grün ist die Heide (1951) and the Reinvention of the German Homeland in Living Color
Die Brücke (1959): Film and War
Der junge Törless (1966) or Recapturing Tradition
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972): Film and the Sublime
Deutschland im Herbst (1978) or Film and Politics
Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979) or West Germany Rebuilds
Die Blechtrommel (1979) or Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past
Die bleierne Zeit (1981): Film and Terrorism
Männer (1985) and the New German Film Comedy
Der Himmel über Berlin (1987): Berlin, City of Angels
PART SEVEN: GERMAN FILM AFTER REUNIFICATION 1990-2019
German Film after Reunification 1990-2019: Historical Overview
Der bewegte Mann (1994) or West German Self-Absorption
Rossini (1997) or West German Self-Absorption Criticized
Lola rennt (1998) or Cool Germania
Good Bye Lenin! (2003) or Farewell to the Socialist Motherland
Gegen die Wand (2004) or Germany Goes Multicultural
Das Leben der anderen (2006) or the Power of Art
Toni Erdmann (2016) and the Passing of a Generation
Conclusion: The Future of German Cinema?
Index

STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.