Light Motives: German Popular Cinema in Perspective

Book Overview

Light Motives undertakes a long overdue critical reassessment of German popular cinema, challenging the traditional view of German film history and offering new ways to think about popular cinema in general.

Critics rarely associate popular film with German cinema, despite the international success of such films as Das Boot (1981), The Never-Ending Story (1984), Run, Lola, Run (1998), and recent German comedies, all representing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814330452
• ISBN13: 9780814330456
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 8.9"