Christian Petzold’s French Cinephilia: Femmes Fatales in His Recent Films Noirs

This talk is brought to us by Jaimey Fisher, Film and Media Studies affiliate faculty and UCHRI Director. Lunch will be provided.

Jaimey Fisher is professor of German and of Cinema and Digital Media at the University of California, Davis. Fisher has published four books spanning German cultural history as well as German and US film and television history; a new book on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest for the BFl’s Film Classics series is forthcoming. He is currently working on a project on the emergence of television news in 1950s West Germany and Austria. Since 2025, he has served as the director of UCHRI, located at UC Irvine.