| The History of German Literature on Film Contributor(s): Schönfeld, Christiane (Author), Semenza, Greg M. Colón (Editor), Hasenfratz, Bob (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1628923768 ISBN-13: 9781628923766 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $198.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2023 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2022044831 |
| Series: History of World Literatures on Film |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6" W x 9" (2.47 lbs) 720 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Detailing the comprehensive and multi-layered story of adaptations of German literature on film between 1896-2010, this indispensable study shows how these adaptations emerge from and continue to shape the social, artistic, and commercial aspects of film history. The History of German Literature on Film includes an online comprehensive chronology of film adaptations spanning the history of the cinema, allowing students to follow the main trunk of analysis and to quickly contextualize adaptations in film history, providing opportunities for independent research. Not being considered the producers of a lesser art, German filmmakers have often displayed an uncommon confidence regarding the use of literature for film, and their adaptation projects have had a significant impact on the history of German film from its inception in the late 19th century to the present day. German literary texts have been adapted by the most respected filmmakers -- from Georges M li s and Fritz Lang to Werner Herzog and Tom Tykwer -- to great national and international acclaim. In a number of cases, an outstanding literary work is today remembered due to its adaptation -- for example Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat/Small Town Tyrant (1905), which was a success in German-speaking countries prior to World War I, but became an international sensation when The Blue Angel (1930) starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings hit the cinema screens. |
Contributor Bio(s): Semenza, Greg M. Colon: - Greg M. Colón Semenza is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, USA. His books include How to Build a Life in the Humanities (2015), The English Renaissance in Popular Culture (2010), Graduate Study for the 21st Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities (2005; 2nd ed. 2010), Milton in Popular Culture (2006), and Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance (2004). He has published numerous essays on film and adaptation and is now working on a book about Powell and Pressburger's wartime films.Schonfeld, Christiane: - Christiane Schönfeld is Chair of the Dept. of German Studies & Co-Director of the Irish Centre for Transnational Studies, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. Her publications include Dialektik und Utopie (1996), Commodities of Desire: The Prostitute in German Literature (2000), Denkbilder (2004), Practicing Modernity: Female Creativity in the Weimar Republic (2006), Processes of Transposition: German Literature and Film (2007), Representing the 'Good German' in Literature and Culture after 1945: Altruism and Moral Ambiguity (2013), as well as articles on German literature and cinema, focusing especially on adaptation, autobiography, gender, war trauma, memory discourses, return migration and reeducation.Hasenfratz, Bob: - Bob Hasenfratz is Professor of English and Department Head at the University of Connecticut, USA. His books include Reading Old English (2005/11), Ancrene Wisse (2001), and Beowulf Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography 1979-1990 (1993). He has written articles on medieval literature and culture and edits the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures. |