Generic histories of German cinema genre and its deviations (Camden House, 2013)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: toward generic histories: film genre, genre theory, and German film studies / Jaimey Fisher -- Parallel modernities: from haunted screen to universal horror / Gerd Gemunden -- The essay film and its German variations / Nora M. Alter -- The limits of futurity: German science fiction film in the course of time / Lutz Koepnick -- The situation is hopeless, but not desperate: UFA's early sound film musicals / Eric Rentschler -- Resisting the war (film): Wicki's "masterpiece" Die Brucke (1959) and its generic transformations / Jaimey Fisher -- Ironizing identity: the German crime genre and the Edgar Wallace production trend of the 1960s / Sascha Gerhards -- From Siodmak to Schlingensief: the return of history as horror / Kris Vander Lugt -- Producing adaptations: Bernd Eichinger, Christiane F., and German film history / Hester Baer -- Exceptional thrills: genrification, Dr. Mabuse, and Das Experiment / Steve Choe -- The Heimat film in the twenty-first century: negotiating the New German cinema to return to Papas Kino / Paul Cooke -- The romantic comedy and its other: representations of romance in German cinema since 1990 / Antje Ascheid -- Yearning for genre: the films of Dominik Graf / Marco Abel