A Companion to German Cinema
Terri Ginsberg (editor), Andrea Mensch (editor)While existing social contexts focus on classic topics such as Weimar cinema, Fifties cinema, New German Cinema & its legacy, & Holocaust film, this collection is distinguished by its focus on new developments & the innovative light they may shed on earlier practices.
- ° Offers a careful combination of theoretical rigor, conceptual accessibility, & intellectual inclusiveness
- ° Includes essays by well-known writers as well as up-and-coming scholars who take innovative critical approaches to both time-honored & emergent areas in the field, especially regarding race, gender, sexuality, & (trans)nationalism
- ° Distinctive for its contemporary relevance, reorienting the field to the global 21st century
- ° Fills critical gaps in the extant scholarship, opening the field onto new terrains of critical engagement
Terri Ginsberg is a director & public programmer at the International Council for Middle East Studies in Washington, D.C. She has taught film, media, & cultural studies at New York University, Rutgers University, Dartmouth College, Ithaca College, & Brooklyn College. She is author of Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology (2007), & co-editor (with Kirsten Moana Thompson) of Perspectives on German Cinema (1996) & of several other volumes on global cinema & Middle Eastern film studies.
Andrea Mensch is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at North Carolina State University, & has also taught film & literature courses in London & at the NCSU Prague Institute. She was associate editor as well as book reviews editor for Jouvert: A Journal of Post-colonial Studies.