Fields of Study
20th- and 21st-century film, literature, and culture; Critical Theory; film theory; German film history.
About Johannes
von Moltke
Johannes von Moltke's research and teaching centers on Film and German Cultural History of the 20th and 21st centuries. He studied in Germany, France, and the US, and has previously taught at the University of Hildesheim in Germany. He is the author of No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema, winner of the MLA Scaglione Prize for Best Book in German Studies. Together with Julia Hell, he edits The Germanic Review, and together with Gerd Gemünden he is the series editor for Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual at Camden House. He is the organizer of the German Film Institute at the University of Michigan.
Currently, Prof. von Moltke is working on a project entitled "Moving Images," which explores the relationship between Film, History, and the Emotions; he is also editing two volumes of essays by and about Siegfried Kracauer, respectively. Combining his interests in German, Film, and Cultural Studies, he has explored issues in Critical Theory, the work of Alexander Kluge, the role of melodrama in recent historical “event television,” the phenomenon of stardom in Germany and Hollywood, representations of Jewishness, the culture of Americanization, and popular culture in postwar Germany. His courses and teaching interests include Film Analysis, Film Theory, German Film History, Fascist Cinema, New German Cinema, Siegfried Kracauer, Critical Theory, and Melodrama.
Curriculum Vitae
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Awards
Steelcase Research Professor Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities, University of Mchigan [2007/08]
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Best Book in German Studies, Modern Language Association of America [2006]
Selected Publications
- No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005). View book Winner of the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Germanic Languages and Literatures, 2006
- "Teddie and Friedel: Theodor W. Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer and the Erotics of Friendship," in Criticism (forthcoming)
- "Projektionen der Gewalt: Heimkehr (1941)," in WerkstattGeschichte no. 46 (Fall 2007) pp. 74-86.
- "Unification Effects: Imaginary Landscapes of the Berlin Republic" [with Julia Hell], in Germanic Review vol. 80, no. 1 (Winter 2005), 74-95.
- "Sympathy for the Devil: Cinema, History, and the Politics of Emotion" in New German Critique, no. 102 View article
- "Normalizing Nazi Cinema?" (Review Essay) in Film Quarterly 61.1 (2007) View essay
- "German History after the Visual Turn" (Forum Response) View
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