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Introduction : theoretical and historical considerations / Eric Rentschler The first German art film : Rye's The Student of Prague (1913) / Heide Schlüpmann Dracula in the twilight : Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) / Judith Mayne Lulu and the meter man : Pabst's Pandora's Box (1929) / Thomas Elsaesser Between two worlds : von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930) / Gertrud Koch Reading Ophüls reading Schnitzler : Liebelei (1933) / Alan Williams Kleist in the Third Reich : Ucicky's The Broken Jug (1937) / Marc Silberman How Nazi cinema mobilizes the classics : Schweikart's Das Fräulein von Barnhelm (1940) / Karsten Witte The other Germany in Zinnemann's The Seventh Cross (1944) ; Postwar traumas in Klaren's Wozzeck (1947) / Jan-Christopher Horak Semper fidelis : Staudte's The Subject (1951) / Marc Silberman A return to arms : Käutner's The Captain of Köpenick (1956) / Russell A. Berman Specularity and spectacle in Schlöndorff's Young Törless (1966) / Eric Rentschler Space of history, language of time : Kluge's Yesterday Girl (1966) / Miriam Hansen The invalidation of Arnim : Herzog's Signs of Life (1968) / Brigitte Peucker Textuality and theatricality in Brecht and Straub/Huillet : History Lessons (1972) / Maureen Turim A recast Goethe : Günther's Lotte in Weimar (1975) / Dennis F. Mahoney The tension of translation : Handke's The left-handed woman (1977) / Timothy Corrigan History, fiction, memory : Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) / Anton Kaes The search for the mother/land in Sanders-Brahms's Germany, pale mother (1980) / E. Ann Kaplan Terms of dismemberment : the body in/and/of Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) / Eric Rentschler.