Ben's German Studies Page



This page is under construction - more material will be added soon

Information for current Students:
Studying German Film at Oxford
Lecture Notes
Reading lists (link not active yet)


Useful Links:
Filmportal - database for German film
Wegweiser Film - Goethe Institute's page on German film archives and journals
Deutscher-Film.De - non-academic magazine/database on current cinema /tv
Modern Languages Internet research tutorial


Ben's selected articles:
'Music in Nazi Film: How different is 'Triumph of the Will'', Studies in European Cinema, 3 (2006), 37-53
'Jelinek, "Krankheit oder moderne Frauen"', in: Landmarks in German drama (Bern: Lang, 2002), 225-242
'The project of the Frankfurt School', Telos, Nr. 119 (2001), 75-98
'"Metropolis" - The archetypal version: sentimentality and self-control in the reception of the film', in: Fritz lang's 'Metropolis': Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear (Camden House, 2000), 288-309
'Developing the modern concept of the self: the trial of Meister Eckhart', Telos, Nr. 116 (1999), 56-80