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Contents Introduction Postwar German Cinema and the Horror Film: Thoughts on Historical Continuity and Genre Consolidation vii Steffen Hantke Part 1: The Long Shadow of Weimar: Expressionism and Postwar German Horror Film Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse Trilogy and the Horror Genre, 1922 - 1960 1 Blair Davis Peter Lorre's Der Verlorene: Trauma and Recent Historical Memory 15 Tony Williams Hollywood Horror Comes to Berlin: A Critical Reassessment of Robert Siodmak's Nachts Wenn der Teufel Kam 35 Steffen Hantke Part 2: German Autorenkino and Horror Film: Influences, Dialogues, Exchanges The Shadow and the Auteur: Herzog's Kinski, Kinski's Nosferatu, and Myths of Authorship 57 Linda Badley History, Homage and Horror: Fassbinder, Raab, Lommel and The Tenderness of Wolves (1973) 81 Richard Hand Joy-Boys and Docile Bodies: Surveillance and Resistance in Romuald Karmakar's Der Totmacher 95 Jay McRoy Part 3: New German Horror Film: Between Global Cinema and the Hollywood Blockbuster Introducing "The Little Spielberg": Roland Emmerich's Joey as Reverent Parody 113 Phil Simpson To Die For: Der Fan and the Reception of Sexuality And Horror in Early 1980s German Cinema 135 Ernest Mathijs "Not to scream before or about, but to scream at death": Haneke's Horrible Funny Games 151 Eugenie Brinkema Part 4: Beyond Aesthetics, Against Aesthetics: German Splatter Films Better Living Through Splatter: Christoph Schlingensief's Unsightly Bodies and the Politics of Gore 169 Kris Thomas-Vander Lugt Buttgereit's Poetics: Schramm as Cinema of Poetry 193 Mikel J. Koven Necrosexuality, Perversion and Jouissance: The Experimental Desires of Jörg Buttgereit's NekRomantik Films 207 Patricia MacCormack Part 5. Interviews: Three German Horror Film Directors Good News from the Underground: A Conversation with Jörg Buttgereit 227 Marcus Stiglegger Hunting the Innocents: A Conversation with Robert Sigl 237 Marcus Stiglegger Loneliness, Passion, Melancholia: A Conversation with Nico Hoffmann 247 Marcus Stiglegger Index 261 About the Contributors
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Horror films -- Germany -- History and criticism.