Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Movie
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour-plus Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred...
Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
Movie
On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and...
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The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)
Movie
Near the end of World War II, Maria (Hanna Schygulla) marries Hermann (Klaus Lowitsch), who is...
The Dandy at Dusk
Book
Philip Mann chronicles the relationship of dandyism and the emerging cultural landscape of modernity...
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Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
Book
Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic...
Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy: A Memoir
Anthea Bell, Werner Schroeter and Claudia Lenssen
Book
Werner Schroeter was a leading figure of New German Cinema. In more than forty films made between...
The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present
Book
Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling...