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From bleak Expressionist works to the edgy political cinema of the New German Cinema and the feel-good Heimat films of the postwar era.

A history of German film dealing with individual films as works of art has long been needed.

Serves equally well in courses on modern German film, in courses on general film studies, in courses that incorporate film as a way to study culture, and as an engaging resource for scholars, students, and devotees of cinema and film history.

Traces key genres -- including horror, the thriller, Heimat films, and war films -- over the course of German cinema history.

Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath.