Thomas (film studies, Aberystwyth U., Wales) analyzes the career of Hungarian-born actor Lorre (1904-64) in Europe and in Hollywood during the 1930s after he fled Germany. She discusses him on the Eur
German and North American scholars of film and of German literature and culture examine German cinema during a period most scholars seem happy enough to dismiss as an aberration to be safely ignored.
Screening the East considers German filmmakers' responses to unification. In particular, it traces the representation of the East German community in films made since 1989 and considers whether these
The beginning of filmmaking in the German colonies coincided with colonialism itself coming to a standstill. Scandals and economic stagnation in the colonies demanded a new and positive image of their
Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrant film culture emerged in Europe. Film festivals and schools were established; film theory and history was written that took cinema seriously as an art
Bela Balazs's two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a
