Christiane Schönfeld is Associate Professor and Head of German Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research on German-language literature and cinema focuses on a wide range of cultural representations and sheds light on their significance for the public sphere. Among her publications are books and articles on literary and visual cultures from the 19th to the 21st century.

Elegantly written, this is a superb piece of scholarship; it offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and deeply captivating account of German literature on film that pays close attention to the changing political, economic, and technological conditions of film production and reception … This milestone publication will inform generations of Film Studies and German Studies scholars to come.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction 1. The Beginnings of German-language Literature on Film (1897-1906)2. Early Transnational Narrative Cinema and the Impact of the First World War (1907-18)3. The 'Golden Age' of Silent Cinema: Literary Adaptation, Radicalism, and Censorship (1919-29)4. Literary Talkies: Sound and Internationalization (1922-32)5. The Other German Cinema: Exile and the Second World War (1933-45)6. A History of Abuse: German-language Literature in Nazi Cinema (1933-45)7. The Postwar Period: Reconstructions and Deconstructions (1946-61)8. Split Screens: Continuities and a New German Cinema (1962-89)9. The Walls Come Down: Entrepreneurs, Auteurs, and Art-house Cinema (1990-2021) BibliographyIndex

Christiane Schönfeld is Associate Professor and Head of German Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research on German-language literature and cinema focuses on a wide range of cultural representations and sheds light on their significance for the public sphere. Among her publications are books and articles on literary and visual cultures from the 19th to the 21st century.

Elegantly written, this is a superb piece of scholarship; it offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and deeply captivating account of German literature on film that pays close attention to the changing political, economic, and technological conditions of film production and reception … This milestone publication will inform generations of Film Studies and German Studies scholars to come.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction 1. The Beginnings of German-language Literature on Film (1897-1906)2. Early Transnational Narrative Cinema and the Impact of the First World War (1907-18)3. The 'Golden Age' of Silent Cinema: Literary Adaptation, Radicalism, and Censorship (1919-29)4. Literary Talkies: Sound and Internationalization (1922-32)5. The Other German Cinema: Exile and the Second World War (1933-45)6. A History of Abuse: German-language Literature in Nazi Cinema (1933-45)7. The Postwar Period: Reconstructions and Deconstructions (1946-61)8. Split Screens: Continuities and a New German Cinema (1962-89)9. The Walls Come Down: Entrepreneurs, Auteurs, and Art-house Cinema (1990-2021) BibliographyIndex