Author Brad Prager

Brad Prager

Brad Prager is Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of Missouri. He is the author of After the Fact: The Holocaust in Twenty-First Century Documentary Film (2015), The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (2007), and Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (2007). He is the editor or co-editor of several books including Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory (2008) and Berlin School Glossary: An ABC of the New Wave in German Cinema (2013). He is currently co-editing a volume of essays on the US Holocaust’s Memorial Museum’s archive of outtakes from Claude Lanzmann’s documentary film Shoah.

No Time Like the Present: The Edges of the World in Christian Petzold’s Barbara

Brad Prager

September 2017

Christian Petzold: A Dossier

The source for Christian Petzold’s Barbara (2012) is generally taken to be Hermann Broch’s novella Barbara (1936), with which it indeed shares some similarities, yet the film’s plot and themes closely parallel ...

Reality-Based Filmmaking: The 4th Annual True/False Festival of Documentary Film

Brad Prager

August 2007

Festival Reports

1-4 March 2007 Is there a new wave in documentary filmmaking? Taken as a whole, the level of public engagement with films such as An Inconvenient Truth, Super Size Me, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Who Kil...