<div><i>Cineplex: Intermediate German Language and Culture Through Film</i> 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<i>Cineplex </i>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,<i>Cineplex </i>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.<br><br><u>Features:</u><br><br>• <i>Vorbereitung und Hintergrund</i> sections provide pre-viewing exercises that prepare students for a positive and effective viewing experience<br>• Scene studies allow students to deal closely with the film through didacticized clips with pre- and post-viewing activities<br>• Film-derived grammar exercises provides students with a thorough and traditional intermediate grammar trajectory while learning key grammar in context<br>• Readings relate thematically to the film, ranging from poems and excerpts from literary prose to speeches and magazine articles<br>• Ten appealing films are easily available (for links to purchase, visit focusbookstore.com)<br>• A companion website with an auto-correcting workbook, links to film resources, and more is available on Focus Online Courseware (courses.pullins.com)</div>