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This book tells the story of German-language literature on film, beginning with pioneering motion picture adaptations of Faust in 1897 and early debates focused on high art as mass culture. It explores, analyzes and contextualizes the so-called 'golden age' of silent cinema in the 1920s, the impact of sound on adaptation practices, the abuse of literary heritage by Nazi filmmakers, and traces the role of German-language literature in exile and postwar films, across ideological boundaries in divided Germany, in New German Cinema, and in remakes and movies for cinema as well as television and streaming services in the 21st century. Having provided the narrative core to thousands of films since the late 19th century, many of German cinema's most influential masterpieces were inspired by canonical texts, popular plays, and even children's literature. Not being restricted to German adaptations, however, this book also traces the role of literature originally written in German in international film productions, which sheds light on the interrelation between cinema and key historical events. It outlines how processes of adaptation are shaped by global catastrophes and the emergence of nations, by materialist conditions, liberal economies and capitalist imperatives, political agendas, the mobility of individuals, and sometimes by the desire to create reflective surfaces and, perhaps, even art. Commercial cinema's adaptation practices have foregrounded economic interest, but numerous filmmakers throughout cinema history have turned to German-language literature not simply to entertain, but as a creative contribution to the public sphere, marking adaptation practice, at least potentially, as a form of active citizenship.

German literature --- Motion pictures and literature. --- Film adaptations. --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures. --- History. --- Motion pictures and literature --- Film adaptations --- Film --- Film criticism

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Apollo was the ancient god of light and the divine patron of the arts. He is therefore a fitting metaphor for cinematography, which is the modern art of writing with moving light. This book interprets films as visual texts and provides the first systematic theoretical and practical demonstration of the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema. It examines major themes from classical myth and history such as film portrayals of gods, exemplified by Apollo and the Muses; Oedipus, antiquity's most influential mythic-tragic hero; the question of heroism and patriotism in war; and the representation of women like Helen of Troy and Cleopatra as products of male desire and fantasy. Covering a wide range of European and American directors, genres and classical authors, this study provides an innovative perspective on the two disciplines of classics and cinema and demonstrates our most influential medium's unlimited range when it adapts ancient texts.

Film --- Classical literature --- Motion pictures and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures and literature --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Literature --- History and criticism --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Film adaptations --- Motion pictures and literature --- Film adaptations. --- Motion pictures and literature. --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Literature --- Adaptations, Film --- Books, Filmed --- Filmed books --- Films from books --- Motion picture adaptations --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism --- Adaptations --- Film

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Cinéma et littérature. --- Adaptations cinématographiques. --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature américaine --- Film --- Literature --- Film adaptations. --- Motion pictures and literature.

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Spanish-American literature --- Social problems --- Film --- Spanish literature --- Spain --- Cuba --- Motion pictures and literature --- Motion pictures --- Social problems in motion pictures. --- Social aspects