Cineplex: German Language and Culture Through Film - Softcover

Zachau, Reinhard; Schueller, Jeanne; Collenberg-Gonzalez, Carrie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585104094 ISBN 13: 9781585104093

Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co, 2014

Synopsis

Cineplex: Intermediate German Language and Culture Through Film is a communicative textbook for second-year German-language courses that uses engaging, authentic cultural materials: feature films from Germany. Each of the ten chapters in Cineplex focuses on a contemporary, critically-acclaimed film—on highly motivationally topics ranging from the West-German student movement to the German Democratic Republic to Turkish-German migrants to the Holocaust—that appeals to the needs of intermediate learners and their understanding of German-speaking culture. Designed for today’s student, Cineplex is more than just a textbook—it is a space in which students can ‘meet’ the people of Germany through the big screen and experience German language and culture as it is performed in context.

Features:

• Vorbereitung und Hintergrund sections provide pre-viewing exercises that prepare students for a positive and effective viewing experience
• Scene studies allow students to deal closely with the film through didacticized clips with pre- and post-viewing activities
• Film-derived grammar exercises provides students with a thorough and traditional intermediate grammar trajectory while learning key grammar in context
• Readings relate thematically to the film, ranging from poems and excerpts from literary prose to speeches and magazine articles
• Ten appealing films are easily available (for links to purchase, visit www.hackettpublishing.com)
• A companion website with an auto-correcting workbook, links to film resources, and more is available on Focus Online Courseware (courses.hackettpublishing.com)

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Reinhard Zachau is Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee (USA). He is the author of a number of books, among them a volume on Stefan Heyman's work, introductions to German film and to Berlin's culture, along with studies on Wolfgang Koeppen, Hans Fallada and Heinrich Ball.

Edition details

• Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 1585104094
• ISBN 13: 9781585104093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464