John Cruso of Norwich: a man of many parts
March 31, 2022
John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3) is a fine example of an early modern self-made man. This study of his life and work illustrates well that fundamental tenet of the… READ MORE
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Fitzcarraldo
March 30, 2022
Few films in German film history have generated more buzz and speculation long before their actual release than Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, only a handful have left as many legends about… READ MORE
Warning Shadows
March 30, 2022
When I first saw Artur Robison’s Warning Shadows (1923), I was interested in it as part of a project focused on gender and film, so I watched it with an… READ MORE
Toni Erdmann
March 29, 2022
“Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand,” the French film historian Christian Metz once noted. This observation is all the more appropriate for those kinds of… READ MORE
An Unseen Classic: Ula Stöckl’s The Cat Has Nine Lives
March 29, 2022
On February 26, 2020, I sat in a crowded café outside the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin recording an interview with filmmaker Ula Stöckl. Stöckl, who had recently… READ MORE
Coming Out is a First and a Last
March 28, 2022
If people have heard of the East German film Coming Out (1989, directed by Heiner Carow), they usually know one of a few things about the film. First, it was… READ MORE
Camden House German Film Classics series
March 28, 2022
We are excited to kick off our week-long celebration of our Camden House German Film Classics series with this post by our series co-editor Johannes von Moltke, who talks about… READ MORE
Victoria County History of Oxfordshire: The South Oxfordshire Chilterns: Caversham, Goring, and Area
March 24, 2022
The Victoria County History (VCH) is well known for its detailed studies of individual localities, which assemble (in the words of one recent reviewer) ‘countless tiny parts to build a… READ MORE
Studies in Renaissance Literature
March 23, 2022
The Renaissance Society of America’s biannual conference takes place in Dublin next week (Wednesday 30th – Saturday 2nd April) coinciding with some recent exciting changes in Boydell & Brewer’s Studies… READ MORE
Gender Violence in Twenty-First-Century Latin American Women’s Writing
March 22, 2022
Gender Violence in Twenty-First-Century Latin American Women’s Writing argues for foregrounding the violence and contempt against women in the region, which are routinely addressed as collateral to other problems. This… READ MORE
Q&A with Seth Peabody: Exploring German Film History