Berlin School Glossary

This is the first book on this exciting new movement in European cinema. It includes contributions from an international group of leading scholars of German cinema. It features an intriguing format for the scholarly contributions.

It makes innovative use of images to make the critical and theoretical arguments. It presents an attractive, cutting-edge layout of the volume as a whole.

Berlin School Glossary is the first major publication to mark the increasing international importance of a group of contemporary German and Austrian filmmakers initially known as the Berlin School: Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, Christoph Hochhausler, Jessica Hausner, and others. The study elaborates on the innovative strategies and formal techniques that distinguish these films, specifically questions of movement, space, spectatorship, representation, desire, location, and narrative.

Abandoning the usual format of essay-length analyses of individual films and directors, the volume is organized as an actual glossary with entries such as bad sex, cars, the cut, endings, familiar places, forests, ghosts, hotels, interiority, landscapes, siblings, surveillance, swimming pools, and wind.

This unique format combined with an informative introduction will be essential to scholars and fans of the German New Wave.