September 22, 2023
As a researcher and author when a book project is finished you always know that there is potential that you’ve missed something. For many projects, this is a source of… READ MORE
September 1, 2023
New month, new releases! First up is Democracy and Nigeria’s Fourth Republic examining Nigeria’s challenges with consolidating democracy and the crisis of governance; The Last Laugh looks into Murnau’s classic… READ MORE
April 2, 2022
The White Ribbon utilizes many authenticating effects to establish the truthfulness of its reconstruction, the veracity of its depiction of the past. The careful mise-en-scène, with its period costumes, detailed… READ MORE
April 2, 2022
I enjoyed writing about Phoenix for Camden House’s German Film Classics series as much as I have ever enjoyed a writing project. The film’s director, Christian Petzold, who is a… READ MORE
April 1, 2022
Growing up in Jerusalem, Israel, and attending the secular school system, I never heard about the clay golem and its narrative of Jewish mystical creation. I was an avid reader… READ MORE
April 1, 2022
At the outset of The Patriot, the eighth installment in Camden House’s German Film Classics series, I ask the question: Why is Alexander Kluge’s The Patriot (1979) a film for… READ MORE
March 31, 2022
Whenever I mentioned to people that I am working on a monograph on Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire, I would either hear, “Oh, that’s (one of) my favorite film/s!” or… READ MORE
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
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
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
Epic Histories of the Spanish Americas