"Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But in recent decades, such reductive assessments have been challenged by developments in film theory and archival research that highlight the tremendous richness and diversity ..."
Screen Cultures German Film and the Visual Ser.: The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema : Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy by ChristianRogowski Published 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1-57113-712-8, ISBN: 1-57113-712-2
"Critics rarely associate popular film with German cinema, despite the international success of such films as Das Boot (1981), The Never-Ending Story (1984), Run, Lola, Run (1998), and recent German comedies, all representing a rich body of work outside the parameters of high culture. This very success compels the authors of Light Motives to take an unprecedented look at German popular film across the historical spectrum and to challenge ..."
Distinguished Outsider Robert Musil and His Critics (Literary Criticism in Perspective) by ChristianRogowski Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1994 by Camden House ISBN-13: 978-1-879751-52-1, ISBN: 1-879751-52-6
"Austrian writer Robert Musil (1880-1942) ranks with Proust, Joyce, Kafka and Thomas Mann as a master of the modern prose narrative; his works encompass a wide range of theoretical and aesthetic impulses, ranging from Nietzsche to Mach, from Gestalt theory to Freudian psychoanalysis. This volume traces the scholarly reception of Musil's works, marked by discontinuities and abrupt shifts of perception. At the beginning of his career, Musi ..."
Wings of Desire (Camden House German Film Classics) by ChristianRogowski Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2019 by Camden House ISBN-13: 978-1-64014-037-0, ISBN: 1-64014-037-9
"Filmed in 1986/87 in still-divided Berlin, Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire is both a utopian fairy tale and a fascinating time capsule of that late Cold War moment. Together with legendary French cinematographer Henri Alekan (who had worked on Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bte of 1946, among many other films) and Austrian author Peter Handke (with whom he had collaborated before), Wenders created a multilayered filmic poem of dazzling com ..."
Implied Dramaturgy Robert Musil and the Crisis of Modern Drama (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought) by ChristianRogowski Hardcover, 313 Pages, Published 1992 by Ariadne Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-929497-59-4, ISBN: 0-929497-59-7
"This study aims to assess Robert Musil's contribution to the praxis and poetics of drama by placing his dramatic efforts in the context of the development of modern drama. Musil's involvement in the dramatic genre coincides with a period marked by a profound reorientation of drama, delimited by the realism of Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hauptmann on the one hand, and the radical redefinition of the nature and function of drama in Brecht's 'e ..."
Screen Cultures German Film and the Visual Ser.: The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema : Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy by ChristianRogowski, Camden House Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2010 by Camden House ISBN-13: 978-1-57113-429-5, ISBN: 1-57113-429-8
"Moreover, Indian acting here becomes part of the story of the film: it is a story of
renunciation and spirituality. I would go further and argue that besides erasing
any international connection that the actors might have had and invoking a notion
of spiritual sacrifice, Prem Sanyas presented a specifically North Indian vision of
India to a European audience. This North Indian vision included the ideological
investment in the idea ..."
"Critics rarely associate popular film with German cinema, despite the international success of such films as Das Boot (1981), The Never-Ending Story (1984), Run, Lola, Run (1998), and recent German comedies, all representing a rich body of work outside the parameters of high culture. This very success compels the authors of Light Motives to take an unprecedented look at German popular film across the historical spectrum and to challenge ..."