Films about cities abound. They provide fantasies for those who recognize their city and those for whom the city is a faraway dream or nightmare. How does cinema rework city planners’ hopes and city d
This book connects the invention of masochism by turn-of-the-century sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing and writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch to its contemporary appropriation by gay and lesbian filmm
From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first century European cinema. Socia
Films about cities abound. They provide fantasies for those who recognize their city and those for whom the city is a faraway dream or nightmare. How does cinema rework city planners’ hopes and
"Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys" illustrates queer cinematic aesthetics by highlighting key films that emerged at historical turning points throughout the twentieth century. Barb
"Reproducing Europe argues that current European films focus on female characters in order to negotiate the transformations of labor of the last decades. Based on an analysis of approximately two hund
With the 1961 labor recruitment agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Turkey, a migration flow was launched bringing large numbers of Turks to Germany and resulting, so
In the last five years of the twentieth century, films by the second and third generation of the so-called German guest workers exploded onto the German film landscape. Self-confident, articulate, and
