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Bibliography

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

• 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. 5^th 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.