Bernd Herzogenrath is professor of American Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. Publications include: The Films of Bill Morrison (AUP 2017), Practical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury 2020), and Concepts (Bloomsbury 2022). He is (with Patricia Pisters) the main-editor of the series thinking

• Bernd Herzogenrath - Once Upon a [Central European] Time 1. (Film) History (Tereza Czesany Dvoráková) - Barrandov and Its Founder Milos Havel (Radomír D. Kokes) – The Concept of Regional Poetics of Cinema: Czech Films of the 1920s and Early 1930s (Kevin B. Johnson) – Barrandov’s First Fifteen Years: Genres, Stars, Germans, and the State 2. Production History (Petr Szczepanik) – Industrial Authorship and Group Style in Czech Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s (Pavel Skopal and Michal SaSek) - Marcela Pittermannová: Barrandov Dramaturges as Clients, Brokers, and Patrons (Jindriska Bláhová) - Ambitious “Alien” v. Perestroika: Prazská 5 (1988), Home Video, and Producing Politically Subversive Cinema at the 1980s Barrandov 3. Individual Directors (Lucie Cesálková) – A Documentarian between Genres: Jirí Weiss, A Crossover Auteur at Barrandov (David Sorfa) – The Loves of a System: Milos Forman and Barrandov (Peter Hames) – Barrandov and Chytilová (Jonathan Owen) - Barrandov Baroque: The Tenacious Artistry of Juraj Herz (Bernd Herzogenrath) – Václav Vorlícek: A Dream Within a Dream (Matthew Sweney)– The ‘Vault’ Films Contributors Index