Framing the past : the historiography of German cinema and television / edited by Bruce A. Murray and Christopher J. Wickham.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History in the making : Weimar cinema and national identity / Thomas J. Saunders -- Lubitsch's period films as palimpsest : on passion and deception / Sabine Hake -- Imagining history : Weimar images of the French Revolution / Marc Silberman -- Eros, thanatos, and the will to myth : Prussian films in German cinema / Jan-Christopher Horak -- Leni Riefenstahl's feature films and the question of a fascist aesthetic / Linda Schulte-Sasse -- Television as history : representations of German television broadcasting, 1935-1944 / William Uricchio -- Generational conflict and historical continuity in GDR film / Barton Byg -- The disposal of memory : fascism and the Holocaust on West German television / Michael E. Geisler -- On the difficulty of saying "we" : the historians' debate and Edgar Reitz's Heimat / Eric L. Santner -- The new German cinema's historical imaginary / Thomas Elsaesser -- History and film : public memory in the age of electronic dissemination / Anton Kaes.