Faculty
Tobias Nagl
Associate Faculty
Department of Film Studies
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Education: BA, Hamburg University; MA, Indiana University; PhD, Hamburg University.
Research Interests
Research Interests:
Film history and theory, the Frankfurt School, African American studies, silent film, political modernism and the historical avant-garde, popular music, experimental cinema, visual arts, Holocaust representation, postcolonial studies and European colonialism.
Recent Publications:
Essays: “Afrolisation (Blueberry Hill Dub)”, in: Daniel Kojo Schrade, Philip Metz (ed.), AfroSat-1 (Berlin: Revolver, 2012); “March 6, 1920: Chinese Students in Berlin raise charges of racism against Joe May’s Die Herrin der Welt,”in: Jennifer M. Kapczynski and Michael Richardson (ed.), A New History of German Cinema (Rocherster: Camden House, 2012); “‘So Much Tenderness’: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, and the Ambivalences of Interracial Desire” (co-authored with Janelle Blankenship), in: Brigitte Peucker (ed.), A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2012); “‘Sonst wären wir den Weg gegangen wie alle anderen’: Afro-deutsche Komparsen, Zeugenschaft und das Archiv der deutschen Filmgeschichte” [‘Or we would have gone the way of the all the others’: Afro-German bit players, testimony and the archive of German film history] in: Claudia Bruns, Arsal Dardan and Anette Dietrich (ed.), “Welchen der Steine du best”: Filmische Erinnerungen an den Holocaust [‘Whichever Stone You Lift’: Filmic Remembrance of the Holocaust] (Berlin: Bertz+Fischer, 2011); “Projecting Desire, Rewriting Cinematic Memory: Gender and German Reconstruction in Fraulein, ein Deutsches Melodram,” in: Roy Grundmann (ed.), A Companion to Michael Haneke, (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2010); “The Aesthetics of Race in European Film Theory” in: Trifonova Temenuga (ed.), European Film Theory (London: New York: Routledge, 2009); “Louis Brody and the Black Presence in German Film before 1945. A Biographical Sketch,” in: Patricia Mazon, Reinhild Steingröver (ed.), Not So Plain As Black Or White. Afro-German Culture and History, 1890–2000 (Rochester: Rochester UP, 2005). Book: Die unheimliche Maschine: Rasse und Repräsentation im Weimarer Kino [The Uncanny Machine: Race and Representation in Weimar Cinema](Munich: edition text+kritik, 2009) (winner of the Willy Haas Book Prize).
