Jaimey Fisher is an associate professor of German and Cinema and Technocultural Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Disciplining Germany: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction After the Second World War and the coeditor of Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.

"An incisive and eye-opening overview of the work so far of Christian Petzold, arguably the most important and recognized film director working in German cinema today. Analytically rigorous yet accessible, Fisher's work will certainly be welcomed by many readers interested in contemporary German filmmaking and the development of international art cinemas in general. A great book."--Lutz Koepnick, author of The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood  "Fisher's approachable book should be enough to inspire retrospectives in cine-clubs and archives alike."--Slant"Perceptive. . . . Jaimey Fisher sees the filmmaker as an exemplary cultural figure in post-reunification Germany for his wariness over the country's history as well as its newfound eagerness to embrace Reagan-Thatcher economics."--Shepherd Express

• CoverTitle PageContentsAcknowledgmentsA Ghostly Archeology: The Art-House Genre Cinema of Christian PetzoldInterview with Christian PetzoldFilmographyBibliographyIndex

Jaimey Fisher is an associate professor of German and Cinema and Technocultural Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Disciplining Germany: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction After the Second World War and the coeditor of Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.

"An incisive and eye-opening overview of the work so far of Christian Petzold, arguably the most important and recognized film director working in German cinema today. Analytically rigorous yet accessible, Fisher's work will certainly be welcomed by many readers interested in contemporary German filmmaking and the development of international art cinemas in general. A great book."--Lutz Koepnick, author of The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood  "Fisher's approachable book should be enough to inspire retrospectives in cine-clubs and archives alike."--Slant"Perceptive. . . . Jaimey Fisher sees the filmmaker as an exemplary cultural figure in post-reunification Germany for his wariness over the country's history as well as its newfound eagerness to embrace Reagan-Thatcher economics."--Shepherd Express

• CoverTitle PageContentsAcknowledgmentsA Ghostly Archeology: The Art-House Genre Cinema of Christian PetzoldInterview with Christian PetzoldFilmographyBibliographyIndex

Jaimey Fisher is an associate professor of German and Cinema and Technocultural Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Disciplining Germany: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction After the Second World War and the coeditor of Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.

"An incisive and eye-opening overview of the work so far of Christian Petzold, arguably the most important and recognized film director working in German cinema today. Analytically rigorous yet accessible, Fisher's work will certainly be welcomed by many readers interested in contemporary German filmmaking and the development of international art cinemas in general. A great book."--Lutz Koepnick, author of The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood  "Fisher's approachable book should be enough to inspire retrospectives in cine-clubs and archives alike."--Slant"Perceptive. . . . Jaimey Fisher sees the filmmaker as an exemplary cultural figure in post-reunification Germany for his wariness over the country's history as well as its newfound eagerness to embrace Reagan-Thatcher economics."--Shepherd Express

• CoverTitle PageContentsAcknowledgmentsA Ghostly Archeology: The Art-House Genre Cinema of Christian PetzoldInterview with Christian PetzoldFilmographyBibliographyIndex