This guide is an in-depth listing of resources related to German-language film, TV, and cinema culture available to students and faculty at the University of Minnesota.
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- Libraries SearchSearch the University of Minnesota Libraries to find books, scholarly journal articles, news, magazines, media, and other items in the University's collection. View this tutorial to learn how to go from a general idea to a very precise set of results of journal articles and scholarly materials.
Tips:
- Search by original title of German film or TV program to find criticism
- Search by director and "criticism" to find criticism on the director.
- Use term "motion pictures" rather than "film" or "cinema."
- WorldCatFind books, journals, articles, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, theses/dissertations, machine-readable data files, and any other materials available in libraries worldwide. Request items through Interlibrary Loan using the ILLiad link on each item's record.
- Karlsruhe Virtual KatalogAllows you to search German, Austrian, Swiss, and other European library catalogs as well as book dealers simultaneously. Interface in English or German.
- HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowHathiTrust provides access to millions of books and other materials. Full text searching of most books is available and books in the public domain (generally older books) can be freely viewed and/or downloaded. Books still in copyright have more limited access. Users with print-reading disabilities can apply for special access to digitized works by emailing wilsref@umn.edu.
Selected Books on German Film and Television
- A Companion to German Cinema byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781444345575Publication Date: 2012Includes chapters on Weimar cinema, Fifties cinema, New German Cinema and its legacy, and Holocaust film. Berlin Film, Neue Heimat Film, New Comedy, post-Wall documentaries, the post-Wende RAF genre, and Rabenmutter imagery, as well as on the persistently overlooked and under-theorized Indianerfilme, post-AIDS documentaries, sexploitation films, and new multicultural and transnational films.
- A Critical History of German Film, Second Edition byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781787448964Publication Date: 2020The book covers thirty-two individual films and in seven interchapters that provide context for historical periods from early German cinema to postunification. The 2nd edition covers five additional films, expands the coverage of women's cinema, and brings the history of filmmaking in Germany up to the present moment.
- German National Cinema byCall Number: TC Wilson Library General Collection PN1993.5.G3 H28 2008ISBN: 9780415420983Publication Date: 2008A comprehensive history of German film from its origins to the present. In this new edition, Hake discusses film-making in economic, political, social, and cultural terms, and considers the contribution of Germany's most popular films to changing definitions of genre, authorship, and film form.
- German Television: Historical and Theoretical Approaches byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781785331138Publication Date: 2016This volume provides penetrating essays on the distinctive theories, practices, and social-historical contexts that have defined television in Germany. Encompassing developments from the dawn of the medium through the Cold War and post-reunification, this is an essential introduction to a rich and varied media tradition.
- A New History of German Cinema byCall Number: TC Wilson Library General Collection PN1993.5.G3 N485 2012ISBN: 9781571134905Publication Date: 2012A dynamic, event-centered exploration of the hundred-year history of German-language film.
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