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Of Soldiers and Dreamers: Peter Lilienthal in Latin America

by Claudia Sandberg Claudia Sandberg is the author of Peter Lilienthal : A Cinema of Exile and Resistance. Sitting at a wooden bench, the young woman Marcela follows the teacher attentively. She has decided to take part in the literacy campaign that was launched by the Unidad Popular government. In a group with other woman, they have gathered in the meeting place and school of the shanty town community La Victoria, situated at the fringes of the Chilean capital, to get […]

¶ Posted 07 September 2021 † Berghahn Journals § Blog § From Idea to Book § In Their Own Words ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: cultural history, film history, film studies, Germany, history, Latin America

Most Popular Film Articles

We are excited to have virtual presence at the International Screen Studies Conference 2021 June 25-27. Please stop by our virtual booth and explore our offerings.

¶ Posted 25 June 2021 † Berghahn Journals § Blog § Journals ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: cinema, cinema studies, film studies, projections, screen bodies, screen studies

The 75th anniversary of the founding of the East German film studio DEFA

Elizabeth Ward On 17 May 1946, the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA) was officially founded. Over the course of the following four decades, the studio produced nearly 700 feature films, as well as hundred of animation and documentary films. By the time it was finally privatised and sold following German reunification, DEFA was one of Europe’s largest […]

¶ Posted 17 May 2021 † Berghahn Author § Blog § New Book Releases ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: cinema, DEFA, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, East German Film, east germany, film and television studies, film studies, GDR, german film, holocaust film, holocaust studies

Sofia Coppola: The Surface of The Image is Political

In the spirit of esteemed director Sofia Coppola’s fiftieth birthday on 14 May, 2021, we are delighted to share an excerpt of the introduction to Anna Backman Rogers’ award-winning title Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure.

¶ Posted 14 May 2021 † Berghahn Books § Chapter Excerpt ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: film and media, film and television studies, film history, Film Philosophy, film studies, Sofia Coppola

Commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Read an excerpt from Marek Haltof’s POLISH FILM AND THE HOLOCAUST: Politics and Memory.

¶ Posted 19 April 2021 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Chapter Excerpt ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anti-fascism, commemoration, film studies, genocide studies, history, holocaust, holocaust memory, holocaust resistance, Jewish heritage, Jewish history, Jewish studies, Memory studies, poland, polish cinema, polish film, politics, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Fascism and Film

Excerpted from Carl Plantinga’s “Fascist Affect in 300,” in Projections 13(2), 20-37.

¶ Posted 10 February 2021 † Berghahn Journals § Blog § Understanding Fascism ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: 300, affect, Emotion, eugenics, fascism, fascism and film, spectatorship, Understanding Fascism

Editors’ Picks: Recommended reading from the Berghahn Editorial Team

Our editors have put together a list of recommendations per our updated subject categories. Bundle any of these eBooks together at a discounted price by using coupon code 2020EOY through our website. See details about this offer below.

¶ Posted 15 December 2020 † Berghahn Books § Advice from the Editors § Blog § Get to Know Berghahn ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: 18th/19th Century History, 20th Century History, anthropology, archaeology, Colonialism, Early modern History, film & media, film and media studies, genocide, genocide studies, history, holocaust, holocaust studies, Jewish studies, Memory studies, Transport Studies, World War I, World War II

International Translation Day

According to the United Nations, International Translation Day is “an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation.”

¶ Posted 30 September 2020 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Events ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, film studies, German translation, history, sociology, translation

WILDER THAN WILD: Fire, Forests and the Future

Stephen Most’s 2018 documentary WILDER THAN WILD: Fire, Forests and the Future recounts recent California megafires of 2013 and 2017, revealing how fuel build-up and climate change have exposed Western wildlands to large, high-intensity wildfires while greenhouse gases released from these fires contribute to global warming. As the Amazon rainforest continues to burn, understanding and […]

¶ Posted 29 August 2019 † Berghahn Books § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: 20th century, amazon rainforest, author events, california, conservation, documentary, environmental studies, film studies, forest fires, megafires, social change, stephen most, storytelling, wildfires

A Divided Germany

This week marks the fifty-eighth anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall. The Iron Curtain was assembled in the middle of Berlin in August 1961 and expanded over the following months to ultimately divide West Berlin from the surrounding East Germany, prohibiting East Germans to pass into West Germany for decades. Browse our relevant […]

¶ Posted 15 August 2019 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: Berlin, Berlin Wall, blues, cold war, cold war history, divided germany, Eastern Bloc, ethnography, europe, European history, GDR, gender history, gender studies, german history, german politics and society, german unification, Germany, history, journal featured, memory, music, new book releases, new books, new in paperback, poli, postwall, postwar history

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