Wolfgang Fuhrmann teaches film at the University of Zurich's Department of Film Studies. From 2005-2008 he was Director of the DFG Research Project "Film and Ethnography in Germany 1900-1930," and has held teaching positions in Germany, Switzerland, and the Americas. He has published on German colonial cinema, early ethnographic filmmaking, historical film reception, and transnational film history.

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Introduction

PART I: THE BEGINNING OF COLONIAL FILM CULTURE IN IMPERIAL GERMANY

Chapter 1. From the Variety Theatre to the German Colonial Society
Chapter 2. Carl Müller: A Colonial Film Maker
Chapter 3. The DKG's Film Shows: The Colonies in Motion

PART II: ADDRESSING THE MASSES

Chapter 4. The 'Hottentot Election' of 1907
Chapter 5. The DKG's Kinematographenkampagne
Chapter 6. Rise and Fall of the Kinemtographenkampagne

PART III: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMMAKING IN THE COLONIES

Chapter 7. Karl Weule in German East Africa
Chapter 8. The Expedition in Context: Modern German Ethnography
Chapter 9. Filming in the Colonies: Training and Improvisation

PART IV: TOURISM, ENTERTAINMENT, AND COLONIAL IDEOLOGY

Chapter 10. Colonial Films in Public Cinema
Chapter 11. The Colonial Travelogue
Chapter 12. Colonial Films in Transition: Robert Schumann's Comeback

PART V: COLONIAL FILM PROPAGANDA DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Chapter 13. Setting Up Colonial War Propaganda
Chapter 14. The Deutsche Kolonial-Filmgesellschaft (DEUKO)

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Filmography

Bibliography

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