Concise Cinegraph - Hardcover

Hans-Michael Bock; Tim Bergfelder

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1571816550 ISBN 13: 9781571816559

Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2006

Synopsis

This comprehensive guide is an ideal reference work for film specialists and enthusiasts. First published in 1984 but continuously updated ever since, CineGraph is the most authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia on German-speaking cinema in the German language. This condensed and substantially revised English-language edition makes this important resource available to students and researchers for the first time outside its German context. It offers a representative historical overview through bio-filmographical entries on the main protagonists, from the beginnings to the present day. Included are directors and actors, writers and cameramen, composers and production designers, film theorists and critics, producers and distributors, inventors and manufacturers. An appendix includes short introductory essays on specific periods and movements, such as Early Film, Weimar, Nazi Cinema, DEFA, New German Cinema, and German film since unification, as well as on cinematic developments in Austria and Switzerland. Sections that crossreference names around specific professional groups and themes will prove equally invaluable to researchers.

About this title

About the Authors

Hans-Michael Bock, General Editor, is editor of the encyclopaedia CineGraph - Lexikon zum deutschsprachigen Film, a reference work for German language film history published since 1984. He is also co-founder and board member of the research institute CineGraph - Hamburgisches Centrum für Filmforschung which was founded in 1989 by the editors of the CineGraph encyclopaedia in order to intensify research of German film history in the European and transcontinental context.

Tim Bergfelder, Associate Editor, is Professor in Film at the University of Southampton. He is the author of International Adventures: Popular German Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s (2005). His co-edited or co-authored volumes include The German Cinema Book (2002), The Titanic in Myth and Memory: Representations in Visual and Literary Culture (2004), and Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination (2007).

From the Back Cover

Since its publication in 1984, CineGraph has become the most authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia of German film. We are pleased to make a condensed English-language edition of this important handbook available for the first time. It offers a representative overview of German film history through bio-filmographical entries on its main protagonists, from the beginnings to the present day. In addition, entries have been specifically selected and rewritten, as in the case of exiled or émigré German artists whose careers continued in the United Kingdom, or in Hollywood. Other features include short introductions to specific periods and movements, e.g. Early Cinema, Expressionism, Film Europe, Nazi Cinema, DEFA, and New German Cinema; the relationship between film and other media, e.g. television, and art forms. Equally valuable are the sections on specific professions within the film industry such as actors, directors, cinematographers, production designers. This comprehensive guide will serve as an ideal reference work for film specialists and enthusiasts alike for years to come.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1571816550
• ISBN 13: 9781571816559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 600