Bernd Herzogenrath is professor of American Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. Publications include: The Films of Bill Morrison (AUP 2017), Practical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury 2020), and Concepts (Bloomsbury 2022). He is (with Patricia Pisters) the main-editor of the series thinking

Bernd Herzogenrath - Once Upon a [Central European] Time, 1. (Film) History, (Tereza Czesany Dvoráková) - Barrandov and Its Founder Milos Havel,(Radomír D. Kokes), The Concept of Regional Poetics of Cinema: Czech Films of the 1920s and Early 1930s,(Kevin B. Johnson), Barrandov's First Fifteen Years: Genres, Stars, Germans, and the State, 2. Production History,(Petr Szczepanik), Industrial Authorship and Group Style in Czech Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s,(Pavel Skopal and Michal SaSek) - Marcela Pittermannová: Barrandov Dramaturges as Clients, Brokers, and Patrons,(Jindriska Bláhová) - Ambitious Alien v. Perestroika: Prazská 5 (1988), Home Video, and Producing Politically Subversive Cinema at the 1980s Barrandov, 3. Individual Directors,(Lucie Cesálková), A Documentarian between Genres: Jirí Weiss, A Crossover Auteur at Barrandov,(David Sorfa), The Loves of a System: Milos Forman and Barrandov,(Peter Hames), Barrandov and Chytilová,(Jonathan Owen) - Barrandov Baroque: The Tenacious Artistry of Juraj Herz,(Bernd Herzogenrath), Václav Vorlícek: A Dream Within a Dream,(Matthew Sweney)- The 'Vault' Films, Contributors, Index.