Bücher der Reihe Film Europa

This comprehensive guide is an ideal reference work for film specialists and enthusiasts. First published in 1984 but continuously updated ever since, CineGraph is the most authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia on German-speaking cinema in the German language.

Bela Balazs's two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a film theorist whose German-language publications have been hitherto unavailable to the film studies audience in the English-speaking world.

Based on cultural studies, gender studies, and the study of popular cinema, this anthology offers an account by focusing on popular genres, famous stars, and dominant practices, by taking into account the complicated relationships between East vs West German, German vs European, and European vs American cinemas.