Christian Petzold

Jaimey Fisher is an associate professor of German and Cinema and Technocultural Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Disciplining Germany: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction After the Second World War and the coeditor of Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.

"An incisive and eye-opening overview of the work so far of Christian Petzold, arguably the most important and recognized film director working in German cinema today. Analytically rigorous yet accessible, Fisher's work will certainly be welcomed by many readers interested in contemporary German filmmaking and the development of international art cinemas in general. A great book."--Lutz Koepnick, author of The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood"Fisher's approachable book should be enough to inspire retrospectives in cine-clubs and archives alike."--Slant "Perceptive. . . . Jaimey Fisher sees the filmmaker as an exemplary cultural figure in post-reunification Germany for his wariness over the country's history as well as its newfound eagerness to embrace Reagan-Thatcher economics."--Shepherd Express "It is… impossible to overstate the significance of Christian Petzold, Jaimey Fisher's superb analysis of what many consider post-unification of German cinema's most important director… Fisher's well- researched and lucidly written analysis allows Petzold's oeuvre to become part of a 'neighborhood' of contemporary world cinema greats such as David Lynch, Todd Haynes, Kim Ki-Duk, Jim Jarmusch, Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, and Steven Soderbergh."--Seminar; A Journal of Germanic Studies "Fisher's book offers an excellent sense of the kinds of characters, themes, and styles one finds in Petzold's work. He establishes Petzold as an auteur with global reach."--German Studies Review