AcknowledgmentsForeword to the 2021 EditionIntroduction1. Berlin, 19312. Serial Murder, Serial Culture3. Total Mobilisation4. Before the Law5. Los Angeles, 1951Appendix: The Missing SceneNotesCreditsBibliography
Anton Kaes is Chancellor's Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is the author and editor of books including From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film (1989); The Weimar Republic Sourcebook (1994); A New History of German Literature (2004); Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955-2005, (2007); Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Persistence of War (2009), winner of the German Studies Association/DAAD book prize in 2010 and the MLA Scaglione Prize for "outstanding scholarly work" in 2011, and The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933, (2016), winner of the Award of Distinction from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies in 2017.
