Book about filmmaker Christian Petzold, co-edited by Abel, published

Christian Petzold: Interviews, co-edited by Marco Abel, has been published by University Press of Mississippi.

Christian Petzold is a German filmmaker associated with the "Berlin School" of postunification German cinema. Featuring 35 interviews, this book is the first to document how one of Germany's best-known director's thinking about his work has evolved over the course of a quarter of a century, spanning his days as a student filmmaker to 2020.

Abel, Willa Cather professor of English and Film Studies and chair of the Department of English, collaborated with Aylin Bademsoy and Jaimey Fisher of the University of California, Davis. He specializes in film theory and European cinema. His previous book, The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School, won the German Studies Association prize for Best Book 2014. He has published numerous essays on German cinema.