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After the Avant-Garde
Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
New essays exploring the surging field of experimental film in today's Germany and Austria.

Arthur Schnitzler and Twentieth-Century Criticism
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
An analysis of the scholarly criticism of the great Viennese writer up to the year 2000.

Bertolt Brecht's Dramatic Theory
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Detailed analysis of Brecht's extensive theoretical writings on the theater, including newly available works.

The Buchenwald Child
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
The dramatic story of a Jewish child's rescue at Buchenwald and its use as propaganda in both East and united Germany.

The Buchenwald Child (paperback)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
The dramatic story of a Jewish child's rescue at Buchenwald and its use as propaganda in both East and united Germany.

A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
New essays examining the complex period of rich artistic ferment that was German literary Expressionism.

A Companion to the Works of Heinrich von Kleist
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
New essays on the most prominent German dramatist and short-story writer of the early 19th century.

A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A fresh collection of essays on the work of one of the leading figures of the Viennese fin de siècle.

A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
New essays demonstrating and exploring the abiding fascination of Wagner's controversial work.

Cultural History through a National Socialist Lens (paperback)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A fascinating look at Nazi Germany as revealed in its films.

Expressionist Film -- New Perspectives
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
New essays by leading scholars giving a new picture of the variety of German expressionist cinema.

Fritz Lang's Metropolis
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A collection of essays -- early seminal works as well as fresh interpretations -- on the famous German expressionist film, Metropolis.

Fritz Lang's Metropolis (paperback)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A collection of essays -- early seminal works as well as fresh interpretations -- on the famous German expressionist film, Metropolis.

Gender and Representation in the Films of Ingmar Bergman
Series: Studies in Scandinavian Literature and Culture
A detailed feminist study of Bergman's most important films.

Georg Büchner's Woyzeck
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
A study of the literary criticism of the famous and influential German play fragment Woyzeck.

German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the Twenty-First Century
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
The first major study of the contemporary German debate over "normalization" and its impact across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses.

German Memory Contests
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Essays shedding light on the increasingly open cultural debate on the German past.

The Historical Experience in German Drama
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A survey of 17th- to 20th-century German dramatic works that not only treat historical events but yield a historical experience.

An Introduction to the Works of Peter Weiss
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A comprehensive introduction to the works and vision of the German writer, director, and political activist.

Literature and Film in the Third Reich
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
The first comprehensive survey in English of the literature and film of Nazi Germany.

Modern German Political Drama 1980-2000
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A comprehensive survey of the renaissance of the German political drama in the years surrounding reunification.

Narrative and Stylistic Patterns in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Series: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture
A critical study of the films of Stanley Kubrick, one of the great directors of the century.

Nazi Cinema as Enchantment (paperback)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Explores how entertainment cinema served everyday fascism in Nazi Germany.

Schiller the Dramatist
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Schiller's "Wallenstein," "Maria Stuart," and "Die Jungfrau von Orleans"
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
An overview of the reception of Schiller's late dramas in the context of radical shifts in historical thought.

Space and Time in Epic Theater
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
The development of epic theater before, during, and after Brecht's time, and analysis of epic productions, showing the form's continued relevance.

Stated Memory
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A long-overdue study of the East German view of the Holocaust over the years 1946-1989.

Thomas Bernhards Trilogie der Künste
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Study of the three most signficant late works of the Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard. (In German language.)

Visualizing the Holocaust
Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
Collection of essays exploring the controversies surrounding images of the Holocaust.

When Heimat Meets Hollywood
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Contemporary connections between German directors and Hollywood and their implications for German, American, and transnational film.

Women and German Drama
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Explores the traditional bias against women's drama and asks to what extent women playwrights have been able to overcome it.

Women in Weimar Fashion
Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women.