The German cinema book / edited by Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter and Deniz Göktürk.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index.

Evergreens : the Heimat genre / Johannes von Moltke -- German film comedy / Jan-Christopher Horak -- Extraterritorial fantasies : Edgar Wallace and the German crime film / Tim Bergfelder -- Queer traditions in German cinema / Robert Kiss -- Siegfried - a German film star performing the nation in Lang's Nibelungen film / Anton Kaes -- Marlene Dietrich - the prodigal daughter / Erica Carter -- Heinz Rühmann - the archetypal German / Stephen Lowry -- Armin Mueller-Stahl - from East Germany to the West Coast / Claudi Fellmer -- German stars of the 1990s / Malte Hagener -- The origins of film exhibition in Germany / Joseph Garncarz -- Early cinema and its audiences / Frank Kessler and Eva Warth -- A history of Ufa / Hans-Michael Bock and Michael Töteberg -- DEFA - state, studio, style, identity / Horst Claus -- State legislation, censorship and funding / Martin Loiperdinger -- Political cinema as oppositional practice : Weimar and beyond / Marc Silberman -- Film policy in the Third Reich / Julian Petley -- New German cinema and history : the case of Alexander Kluge / Thomas Elsaesser -- Women film-makers, the avant-garde and the case of Ulrike Ottinger / Ulrike Sieglohr -- The Autorenfilm in contemporary German cinema / Ian Garwood -- Transatlantic careers : Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang / Sabine Hake -- Hollywood in Germany/Germany in Hollywood / Peter Krämer -- In the wilds of the German imaginary : African vistas / Marie-Hélène Gutberlet -- Beyond paternalism : Turkish German traffic in cinema / Deniz Göktürk.