Cineplex: German Language and Culture Through Film (German and English Edition)

Cineplex: Intermediate German Language and Culture Through Film is a communicative textbook for second-year German-language courses that uses engaging, authentic cultural materials: feature films from Germany. Each of the ten chapters in Cineplex focuses on a contemporary, critically-acclaimed film—on highly motivationally topics ranging from the West-German student movement to the German Democratic Republic to Turkish-German migrants to the Holocaust—that appeals to the needs of intermediate learners and their understanding of German-speaking culture. Designed for today’s student, Cineplex is more than just a textbook—it is a space in which students can ‘meet’ the people of Germany through the big screen and experience German language and culture as it is performed in context. Features: • Vorbereitung und Hintergrund sections provide pre-viewing exercises that prepare students for a positive and effective viewing experience • Scene studies allow students to deal closely with the film through didacticized clips with pre- and post-viewing activities • Film-derived grammar exercises provides students with a thorough and traditional intermediate grammar trajectory while learning key grammar in context • Readings relate thematically to the film, ranging from poems and excerpts from literary prose to speeches and magazine articles • Ten appealing films are easily available (for links to purchase, visit www.hackettpublishing.com) • A companion website with an auto-correcting workbook, links to film resources, and more is available on Focus Online Courseware (courses.hackettpublishing.com)