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• Quarterly Review of Film and Video
• Screen
• The Velvet Light Trap
• Wide Angle

• Die Besten: Klagenfurter Texte
• Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur
• Dimension
• Dimension2: Contemporary German-language literature
• Études Germaniques.
• German Life and Letters
• German Studies Review
• The German Quarterly
• Germanic Notes
• The Germanic Review
• Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift  
• Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch
• Marburger Jahrbuch Fur Kunstwissenschaft
• Neue Deutsche Literatur
• New German Critique
• Poetica
• Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies
• Slavic and East European Journal
• Zeitschrift Für Kunstgeschichte

Quick Lookups

• The BFI Companion to German Cinema
• A Companion to German Cinema (0nline)
• The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema (online)
• A Critical History of German Film
• East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History
• The German Cinema Book
• German National Cinema
• Generic Histories of German Cinema: Genre and its Deviations (online)
• Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (contemporary German literature)
• "The Lives of Others" and Contemporary German Film: a Companion
• Weimar Cinema: an Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era

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(JumboSearch for) Books  

Select new titles at Tisch Library:

• Entertaining German culture: German cultural history and entertaining transnational film and television
• The Long Century's Long Shadow: Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern
• Plants, places, and power: toward social and ecological justice in German literature and film

suggested subject browses and keyword searches for books:

Film Directors

• • Fritz Lang
  • F. W.  Murnau
  • Ernst Lubitsch
  • Leontine Sagan
  • Leni Riefenstahl
  • Veit Harlan
  • Konrad Wolf
  •  
  • Wenders Wim
  • Christoph Schlingensief
  • Margarethe von Trotta
  • Fatih Akin
  • Helma Sanders-Brahms
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Volker Schlöndorffr
  • Tom Tykwer
  • Werner Herzog
  • Wolfgang Staudte

 

Austria and German Films

• • motion pictures -- Austria
  • motion pictures Germany
  • Motion pictures -- Germany (East).
  • motion pictures Europe
  • motion pictures Europe Eastern

  Keywords for more specific searches:

  • "motion pictures Germany and (Weimar or "Third Reich")
  • "motion pictures Germany and (GDR or DEFA)
  • "motion pictures Germany and (post-war or 1945)
  • "motion pictures Germany and 21st century

 

Themes

• • Diaspora/exile and cinema
  • National socialism and German Film.
  • Rubble Films
  • Psychic trauma/Suffering in motion pictures
  • War films --germany
  • Motion pictures in propaganda -- Germany.
   
  • Germans / Germany in motion pictures.
  • motion pictures -- Politcal aspects -- Germany
  • motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Germany
   
  • Film Adaptations:
   
  • Women and German Cinema
   
  • Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.
  • Intercultural communication in motion pictures

 

Note: Libraries Worldwide (also known as WorldCat) is still a better place to get a fuller picture of  books on a topic.)

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Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Articles 

1. All Subjects

• JSTOR
• Project Muse

 

2. Film Studies and Related Subjects:

• In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
• Academic Search Premier
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Film & Television Literature Index
• Historical Abstracts (World Culture)
• LGBTQ+ Source
• MLA  (Literature, Folklore and related fields) International Bibliography)
• Slavic and East European Studies
• Women's Studies International

3. German Studies

• Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ).

 

4. Newspapers

• Access World News (more U.S. regional news)
• Factiva (more international news)
• More