Mark T. Kettler

Just one more!

These would later inspire the visual style of Fritz Murnau's 2-part epic, Die Niebelungen

Carl Otto Czeschka's magnificent illustrations for Die Niebelung.

The fall semester approaches!

Introduction: German Samoa as Liberal Colony Abstract. This opening chapter assesses the position of A Pacific Power in the current historiography. It describes its relationship to colonial history, P

Folks interested in German colonialism, If you're looking for a sneak peak at my new book, 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa', the introduction is now free to read online for the next month. academic.oup.com/book/60083/c...

A Death of Despair in Wisborg – Senses of Cinema

What can a vampire story tell us about our evolving fears about modern life?

Read my new essay with @sensesofcinema.bsky.social, "A Death of Despair in Wisborg"

www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/feature...

The best book on the subject yet and probably ever

Considering these iterations in sequence, allows us to appreciate broader transformations in fundamental assumptions about gender, familiarity, and authority over the past 125 years.

The essay considers Robert Eggers’s 2024 adaptation of Fritz Murnau’s 1922 film, Nosferatu, itself an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I examine how key differences in each iteration of this story reflect the anxieties of their filmmakers and surrounding societies.

A Death of Despair in Wisborg – Senses of Cinema

What can a vampire story tell us about our evolving fears about modern life?

Read my new essay with @sensesofcinema.bsky.social, "A Death of Despair in Wisborg"

www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/feature...

All historians know the sinking feeling of tracking an "authoritative" reference back through several generations of writers to an unsourced assertion by someone nobody's ever heard of.

Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.

I just saw this. It looks like an amazing resource for anybody who teaches on Weimar film. I know I’m going to raid it for the next iteration of “German History through Film”.

I'm currently writing a book on Germany's occupation of Russian Poland during the First World War. I argue that this occupation fundamentally transformed how German military, political, and intellectual elites understood the relationship between ethnic diversity and imperial stability.

Well, I finally got around to creating an account. Follow-me if you are interested in modern German History, the First World War in particular.