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German Film Resources at Memorial Library
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | Guides and Film Histories | Select Topics
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias in Film Studies (many with an emphasis on Germanic Film Studies)
Cinegraph. Lexikon zum deutschsprachigen Film
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PN1998 A2 C535 1984
Non-Circulating
Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PN1993.45 H36 2006
Non-Circulating
The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 C65 2009
Non-Circulating
Deutsche Tonfilme. Filmlexikon der abendfüllenden deutschen und deutschsprachigen Tonfilme nach ihren deutschen Uraufführungen. 15 vols. 1988-
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 K456 1988
Encyclopedia of European Cinema
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PN1993.5 E8 V56 1995b
Non-Circulating
Das grosse Lexikon der DEFA-Spielfilme. Die vollständige Dokumentation aller DEFA-Spielfilme von 1946 bis 1993
Call number: PN1999 D4 G76 2000
The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. 4th ed.
Location: Memorial Library Reference Desk (Room 262)
Call number: PN1997.8 I58 2000
Non-Circulating
Lexikon Literaturverfilmungen.Verzeichnis deutschsprachiger Filme, 1945-2000. 2nd ed..
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 S359 2001
Non-Circulating
Pre-cinema History: An Encyclopaedia and Annotated Bibliography of the Moving Image Before 1896 /
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: TR848 H38 1993
Non-Circulating
Weimar Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 E58 2000
Wörterbuch Film & Video
On order, 2013
The BFI Companion to German Cinema
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 B45 1999
Non-Circulating
Chronik des deutschen Films
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 P75 1995
Non-Circulating
Cinema of Germany
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 C56 2012
A Companion to German Cinema
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 C6455 2012
Also available as an electronic resource
Contemporary German Cinema
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 C66 2012
The Continental Actress: European Film Stars of the Postwar Era -- Biographies, Criticism, Filmographies, Bibliographies
Location: Verona Shelving
Call number: PN2570 S4 1990
A Culture of Light: Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 G84 2005
East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History
Call number: PN1999 D4 H45 2013
From Calilgari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 K7 1974
The German Cinema Book
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 G47 2002
German Cinema: Since Unification
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 G358 2006
German Expressionist Cinema: The World of Light and Shadow
Location: College Library Main Collection (1st Floor West, Room 1191)
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 R56 2008
German National Cinema
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 H28 2002
Geschichte des deutschen Films 2nd ed.
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 G385 2004
Handbuch Nachkriegskultur. Literatur, Sachbuch und Film In Deutschland (1945-1962)
Licensed eBook
Magill's Survey of Cinema, Foreign Language Films 8 vols, 1985.
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PN1993.45 M34 1985
Non-Circulating
The Moving Image: An International History of Film, Television, and Video
Call number: PN1993.5 A1 W95 1989
New German Cinema: A History
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 E57 1989
The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 F57 2004
Also available an an electronic resource
A New History of German Cinema
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 N485 2012
Postwall German Cinema: History, Film History and Cinephilia
Electronic resource
Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema, 1967-2000
Call number: PN1995.9 D6 A39 2002
The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933
Call number: PN1993.5.G3 P765 2016
See also: http://www.thepromiseofcinema.com/
Recherche—Film. Quellen und Methoden der Filmforschung
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 R37 1997
Von Caligari zu Hitler. Eine psychologische Geschichte des deutschen Films
Call number: PT2621 R135 A12 2004 Bd.2 pt.1
West German Cinema, 1985-1990: A Reference Handbook
Location: Verona Storage
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 H426 1992
Select Topics (To discover more, click on subject headings in individual records)
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Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture
Call number: PT2607 O35 B51353 2006
Also available as an electronic resource
Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933
Call number: PN1995.9 J46 P73 2005
Caligari's Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945
Call number: PN1995.9 H6 C37 2007
Cinema and National Identity in a Divided Germany, 1979-1989: The Split Screen
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 M48 2000
Contemporary Jewish Reality in Germany and Its Reflection in Film
Call number: PN1995.9 J46 C66 2013
The Continental Actress: European Film Stars of the Postwar Era -- Biographies, Criticism, Filmographies, Bibliographies
Location: Verona Shelving
Call number: PN2570 S4 1990
Conversations with Experience: Feminist Hermeneutics and the Autobiographical Films of German Women
Call number: PN1995.9 W6 S77 2004
The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 C673 2007
Also available as an electronic resource at HathiTrust
The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 K645 2002
DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992
Call number: PN1999 D4 D34 1999
East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History
Call number: PN1999 D4 H45 2013
Expressionist Film: New Perspectives
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 E94 2006
Framing Attention: Windows on Modern German Culture
Location: Art Library (Kohler Art Library) Regular Size Shelving
Call number: NX650 W57 K64 2007
Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity: Film, Literature, and "New Objectivity”
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 M39 2001
German Essays on Film
Call number: PN1994 G425 2004
Nach-Wende-Narrationen. Das wiedervereinigte Deutschland im Spiegel von Literatur und Film
Call number: PT405 N268 2010
No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema
Call number: PN1995.9 H4 V66 2005
Also available as an electronic resource
Post-wall German Cinema and National History: Utopianism and Dissent
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 O25 2012
The Queer German Cinema
Call number: PN1995.9 H55 K89 2000
Take Two: Fifties Cinema in Divided Germany
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 T35 2007
The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989
Call number: PN1993.5 G3 F37 2002
E-book: https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9911032405802121
German Databases
German Language Databases for German Culture, Film, and Theater available via Memorial Library
- BDSL-onlineDatabase for German language and literature, literary history and criticism. Covers books, pamphlets, articles, chapters in books, dissertations and reviews
- GermanistikInternational index of materials in German language and literature
- IBZ OnlineLists more than two million articles in a wide variety of German and non-German journals, annuals, learned society yearbooks, conference proceedings, newspapers, etc. in all fields of knowledge and all languages, from a German point of view