Arbeitsbuch zu German Culture through Film

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Description

This is a two book series. The first text, in English, covers thirty-one German films. This second text covers fourteen of the same films with emphasis on German language skills. Thus, one or both can be used for courses in German film in English, courses in German film in German, or courses which for various reasons might cater to students taking either track simultaneously in the same course.

Features

Each chapter includes:
~Portions of the screen play, generally 2 or 3 scenes each running a page or two.
~A division of the film into 5 or 6 parts. Each part has a listing of that section’s scenes and a brief summary of the scene. ~Each brief summary is followed by 4-6 questions.
~Vocabulary exercises that require students to match words and expressions in one list with those of another. (A few chapters have grammar exercises.)
~Information boxes that give background on the film as well as history and culture needed to understand the movie.
~At the end, A brief summary (120 words) which recycles vocabulary and asks students to fill in 5-7 mixing vocabulary words.

Market

For courses in German film, or German culture through film, or German conversation through the use of film, as taught at the fifth or sixth semester.  The series is designed to appeal to professors who teach courses in general education, liberal arts, cinema, or who conduct a course in German film exclusively in German, or for where students share the same class (and films) for those two different courses.

About the Authors

Robert C. Reimer is Professor of German and Director of the Minor in Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He teaches language and film courses, including German, European, and American cinema. His research includes postwar German film, New German Cinema, contemporary film, and Nazi cinema. His books include an EFL reader, Environmental Debate in the USA – Cleaning Up Tomorrow? (1988), co-edited with Peter Dörfel of the Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, a book on postwar films that deal with Germany’s Nazi past, Nazi-Retro Film: How German Narrative Cinema Remembers the Past (1992), co-authored with Carol J. Reimer of the University of North Carolina Charlotte, and a book on Nazi Cinema, Cultural History through a National Socialist Lens: Essays on the Cinema of the Third Reich (2000), which he edited. In addition he has published papers and essays on Fassbinder, Dörrie, Vilsmaier, von Trotta, and Schlöndorff, among other German directors and has also published on pedagogy.

Reinhard Zachau (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) is Professor of German at the University of the South. He teaches language and linguistics courses, early 20th century literature, exile literature, East German literature, film, and postwar West German literature. His research includes publications on the literature of Weimar Germany, exile literature, East German literature, and on post-1945 West German culture and literature. For the Consortium of German in the Southeast, he organized and frequently directed “Summer in Sewanee,” an annual, two-week professional development immersion program for high school teachers and advanced undergraduates held at the University of the South.

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