Generic Histories of German Cinema: Genre and Its Deviations

Offers a fresh approach to German film studies by tracing key genres — including horror, the thriller, Heimat films, and war films — over the course of German cinema history

Over the last few decades, the field of film studies has seen a rise in approaches oriented toward genre: studies that look at thematic, narrative, and stylistic similarities between films, contextualizing them within culture andsociety. Although there now exists a large body of genre-based scholarship on international f...