Ginsberg Terri - A companion to German cinema

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This edition first published 2012
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A companion to German cinema / edited by Terri Ginsberg, Andrea Mensch. 1st ed.
p. cm. (Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinema)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-9436-5 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Motion PicturesGermany. 1. Ginsberg, Terri.
II. Mensch, Andrea.
PN1993.5.G3C6455 2012
791.430043dc23

2011041275

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Notes on Editors and Contributors

Editors

Terri Ginsberg earned her PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University. She is coeditor (with Kirsten Moana Thompson) of Perspectives on German Cinema (G.K. Hall/Macmillan, 1996), author of Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology (Cambridge Scholars, 2007), coeditor (with Chris Lippard) and contributor to Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema (Scarecrow/Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), editor of a special issue of International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies on film and media (2009), coeditor (with Dennis Broe) and contributor to a special issue of Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination on global cinema (CUNY, 2011), and coeditor (with Tareq Ismael) and contributor to a special issue of Arab Studies Quarterly on Middle East teaching (Pluto, 2011). She has taught film, media, and cultural studies at numerous institutions of higher learning, among them New York University, Rutgers University, Dartmouth College, Ithaca College, and Brooklyn College including courses on German film and international cinemas. She is presently a director and programmer at the International Council for Middle East Studies in Washington, DC.
Andrea Mensch did her graduate work in English and German at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and doctoral work in English and Film Studies at Wayne State University. As well as being a senior lecturer in the English Department at North Carolina State University, she has taught film and literature courses in London and the NCSU Prague Institute. She was associate editor as well as book reviews editor for Jouvert: A Journal of Post-colonial Studies.

Contributors

Sava Arslan is Associate Professor of Cinema and Television at Baheehir University in Istanbul, Turkey. In addition to contributing articles on cinema, the arts, and culture to various journals, magazines, and edited volumes, he has published three books: Cinema in Turkey: A New Critical History (Oxford University Press, 2011), Media, Culture and Identity in Europe (coeditor; Baheehir University Press), and Melodrama (in Turkish; L&M).
Dennis Broe s latest book, Cold War Expressionism: Perverting the Politics of Perception/The American Style in a Global Perspective, is forthcoming. His previous book, Film Noir, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood, was a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2009. His articles on film, politics, and culture have appeared in Situations: Journal of the Radical Imagination, Cinema Journal, Framework, Social Justice, and Science and Society. His work as a film critic and commentator has appeared in Newsday, The Boston Phoenix, and on Pacifica Radio in New York City. Dr Broe was the Graduate Coordinator in Media Arts at Long Island University.
David Clarke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Bath. His research interests include contemporary German film and literature, and the literature of East Germany. He is editor of German Cinema since Unification (Continuum, 2006) and coeditor of The Politics of Place in Post-War Germany: Essays in Literary Criticism (Edwin Mellen, 2009).
David Brandon Dennis is a doctoral candidate in modern European history at the Ohio State University. His primary research interests lie in examining formations of masculinity and sexuality in modern German history. He has been awarded fellowships for dissertation study in Germany through the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and the Fulbright Commission. Currently, he is completing a doctoral thesis on masculinity, labor, and the nation in the Wilhelmine merchant marine.
Gayatri Devi is an Assistant Professor of English at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania where she teaches world literatures. She was co-chair of the Middle Eastern Caucus of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and is a contributor to the Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema (Scarecrow 2010). She writes frequently on South Asian and Middle Eastern literatures and films.
Anthony Enns is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Culture in the Department of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His books include Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability (2001), coedited with Christopher R. Smit, and Sonic Mediations: Body, Sound, Technology (2008), coedited with Carolyn Birdsall. His essays on film and media have appeared in such journals as Screen, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Quarterly Review of Film and Video