German Culture Through Film: An Introduction to German Cinema
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Book Description
This is a two book series. The first text, in English, covers the wide range of German films. The second text covers a selection of the same films with emphasis on German language skills. Two texts, one covering 31 German films in English; the other, 12 of those in German. Thus, one or both can be used for courses in German film in English, courses in German film in German, or courses which for various reasons might cater to students taking either track simultaneously in the same course. The series is designed to appeal to professors who teach courses in general education, liberal arts, cinema, or who conduct a course in German film exclusively in German, or for where students share the same class (and films) for those two different courses.
About the Author
Robert C. Reimer is Professor of German and Director of the Minor in Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He teaches language and film courses, including German, European, and American cinema. His research includes postwar German film, New German Cinema, contemporary film, and Nazi cinema. His books include an EFL reader, Environmental Debate in the USA - Cleaning Up Tomorrow? (1988), co-edited with Peter Dörfel of the Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, a book on postwar films that deal with Germany's Nazi past, Nazi-Retro Film: How German Narrative Cinema Remembers the Past (1992), co-authored with Carol J. Reimer of the University of North Carolina Charlotte, and a book on Nazi Cinema, Cultural History through a National Socialist Lens: Essays on the Cinema of the Third Reich (2000), which he edited. In addition he has published papers and essays on Fassbinder, Dörrie, Vilsmaier, von Trotta, and Schlöndorff, among other German directors and has also published on pedagogy.
Reinhard Zachau (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) is Professor of German at the University of the South. He teaches language and linguistics courses, early 20th century literature, exile literature, East German literature, film, and postwar West German literature. His research includes publications on the literature of Weimar Germany, exile literature, East German literature, and on post-1945 West German culture and literature. For the Consortium of German in the Southeast, he organized and frequently directed "Summer in Sewanee," an annual, two-week professional development immersion program for high school teachers and advanced undergraduates held at the University of the South.
Margit M. Sinka (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) is Professor of German and Head of the German Section at Clemson University. She holds an M.A. from Middlebury College and a Ph.D. in German from the University of North Carolina. She has presented and published on medieval German epics, medieval mysticism, 19th century literature, genre studies (the German Novelle and Kurzgeschichte), pedagogy, 20th century prose, the Holocaust Memorial, contemporary Berlin discourses, and on post-1945 German film. She is currently focusing her research on Berlin studies, including the representation of Berlin in postwar cinema. Her teaching includes 19th and 20th century prose and drama, German film, visual culture, and post-1945 German culture. From 2001 to 2004 she was the post-secondary Southeast Representative on the Executive Council of the American Association of German Teachers.
German Culture Through Film: An Introduction to German Cinema,Robert C. Reimer,Reinhard Zachau,Margit Sinka,Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co.,1585101028,Cinema/Film: Book,Film & Video - General,Performing Arts
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