8: Producing Adaptations: Bernd Eichinger, Christiane F., and German Film History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Toward Generic Histories— Film Genre, Genre Theory, and German Film Studies 1
5. 1: Parallel Modernities: From Haunted Screen to Universal Horror 27
6. 2: The Essay Film and Its German Variations 49
7. 3: The Limits of Futurity: German Science-Fiction Film over the Course of Time 71
8. 4: The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Desperate: UFA’s Early Sound Film Musicals 91
9. 5: Resisting the War (Film): Wicki’s “Masterpiece” Die Brücke and Its Generic Transformations 109
10. 6: Ironizing Identity: The German Crime Genre and the Edgar Wallace Production Trend of the 1960s 133
11. 7: From Siodmak to Schlingensief: The Return of History as Horror 157
12. 8: Producing Adaptations: Bernd Eichinger, Christiane F., and German Film History 173
13. 9: Exceptional Thrills: Genrification, Dr. Mabuse, and Das Experiment 197
14. 10: The Heimat Film in the Twenty-First Century: Negotiating the New German Cinema to Return to Papas Kino 221
15. 11: The Romantic Comedy and Its Other: Representations of Romance in German Cinema since 1990 243
16. 12: Yearning for Genre: The Films of Dominik Graf 261
17. Bibliography 285
18. Contributors 301
19. Index 305