German cinema : texts in context / Marc Silberman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-311) and index.

Introduction: Setting the limits -- pt. 1. The Weimar cinema: 1. Specular presence and historical revolution : Ernst Lubtsch's Passion -- 2. Modernist camera and cinema illusion : Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's The last laugh -- 3. Rhetoric of the image : Slatan Dudov and Bertolt Brecht's Kuhle Wampe or Who owns the world? -- pt. 2. Cinema of the Third Reich: 4. Probing the limits : Detlef Sierck's To new shores -- 5. Fascist discourse : Eduard von Borsody's Request concert -- 6. Illusion of escapism : Helmut Kautner's Romance in a minor key -- pt. 3. Early postwar cinema: 7 Discourse of powerlessness : Wolfgang Staudte's Rotation -- 8. Return of the familiar : Hans Deppe's Black forest girl -- 9. Privatizing the past : Georg Wilhelm Pabst's The last ten days -- pt. 4. East German cinema: 10. Authenticity of autobiography : Konrad Wolf's I was nineteen -- 11. Discipline and gender : Hermann Zschoche's On probation -- pt. 5. The new German cinema: 12. Beyond spectacle : Alexander Kluge's Artists under the big top: Perplexed -- 13. The subject of identity : Margarethe von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane -- 14. Archaeology of the present : Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas.