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.
Online Reference
- Oxford Bibliographies Cinema and Media StudiesSearch expert commentary and detailed annotated bibliographies to find high quality sources of information in Film and Media Studies. In particular, see "German Cinema".
- Filmportal.deProvides information on more than 150,000 German-language films und 250,000 people associated with the making of those films. Includes Video clips, reviews, and other supplemental information on film-related themes.
- Filmlink.de: Online-Informationsressources der Film- und FernsehwissenschaftIncludes annotated listings of links to online catalogs, databases, online glossaries, film studies websites, and general sites on film and television.
- CineuropaIncludes country profiles, blogs, lists of top films.
- Yale Film Analysis Web SiteProvides an overview of the vocabulary used in film studies and the techniques of cinema and film analysis.
The concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema by
Call Number: eBook; also available in printISBN: 9780857455659Publication Date: 2009Has bio-filmographical entries on the main directors and actors, writers, film theorists and critics, etc. from the beginnings to the present day. An appendix includes short introductory essays on specific periods and movements, such as Early Film, Weimar, Nazi Cinema, DEFA, New German Cinema, and German film since unification, as well as on cinematic developments in Austria and Switzerland.Cinema studies : the key concepts by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781003125570Publication Date: 2023Provides accessible definitions of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, world cinemas, theories and production terms. This fully revised and updated book includes new topical entries that explore areas such as film and the environmental crisis; streaming and new audience consumption; diversity and intersectionality; questions related to race and representation; the Black Lives Matter movement; and New Wave Cinemas of Eastern European countries.The Routledge Companion to Film History by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9786612882289Publication Date: 2011
- Oxford Reference OnlineContains 100 language and subject dictionaries and other reference works, and searches across these resources. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Print Reference
Historical Dictionary of German Cinema by
Call Number: TC Wilson Library PN1993.5.G3 R417 2008ISBN: 9780810856233Publication Date: 2008Covers mainstream, alternative, and experimental film from 1895 to the present through a chronology, introductory essay, appendix of the 100 most significant German films, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on directors, actors, films, etc.Reclams Lexikon des deutschen Films by
Call Number: TC Wilson Library PN1993.5.G3 R38 1995ISBN: 3150104106Publication Date: 1995
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