The Cosmopolitan Screen (Between the Local and the Global: Revisiting Sites of Postwar German Cinema): German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present

The Cosmopolitan Screen investigates the extent to which German filmmakers throughout the last sixty years have engaged with the ever more fluid trade of images, meanings, and identities in a globalizing world. The volume traces German cinema’s negotiation of the global as a multilayered story in which the hopes and the fears about the prospect of a more cosmopolitan culture often go hand in hand. Featuring original work from some of the foremost scholars in German film studies from either ...