Wolfgang Petersen—Hollywood's Best Film Directors / Prime Entertainment Group.

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The never ending story : [screenplay] / by Wolfgang Petersen. by Petersen, Wolfgang

Outbreak / Warner Bros. ; written by Laurence Dworet & Robert Roy Pool ; produced by Arnold Kopelson, Wolfgang Petersen, & Gail Katz ; directed by Wolfgang Petersen.

Air Force One ; written by Andrew W. Marlowe ; directed by Wolfgang Petersen.

Troy / Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Radiant production in association with Plan B ; produced by Wolfgang Petersen, Diana Rathbun, Colin Wilson ; screenplay, David Benioff ; directed by Wolfgang Petersen.

Troy / Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Radiant production in association with Plan B ; produced by Wolfgang Petersen, Diana Rathbun, Colin Wilson ; screenplay, David Benioff ; directed by Wolfgang Petersen.

In the line of fire / a Columbia Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment presentation ; directed by Wolfgang Petersen ; written by Jeff Maguire ; produced by Jeff Apple ; an Apple/Rose production ; a Wolfgang Petersen film.

The Perfect storm / Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Baltimore Spring Creek Pictures production ; in association with Radiant Productions ; screenplay by Bill Wittliff ; produced by Paula Weinstein, Wolfgang Petersen and Gail Katz ; directed by Wolfgang Petersen.

The boat : [screenplay] / by Wolfgang Petersen ; based on the novel of the same name by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim ; English version, J. Maxwell Brownjohn. by Petersen, Wolfgang

Hollywood's best film directors. [a Prime Entertainment Group Production] ; [produced in association with OTM Productions] ; [created by David Freydt, Mark Kaplan].

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Das Boot / Columbia Pictures presents a director's cut restoration from Twin Bros. Productions of a Bavaria Film production in association with Radiant Film ; produced by Günter Rohrbach ; written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen.

Return to Troy : new essays on the Hollywood epic / edited by Martin M. Winkler.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Troy revisited / Martin M Winkler -- Wolfgang Petersen on Homer's Troy / Martin M Winkler -- Live from Troy: Embedded in the Trojan War / Daniel Petersen -- Photographs: Behind the Scenes of Troy. …”
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When heimat meets Hollywood : German filmmakers and America, 1985-2005 / Christine Haase. by Haase, Christine, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…German and American film relations in the twentieth century -- Wolfgang Petersen: blockbuster auteur? -- "Foil, toothpaste, ID4" : ideology and global appeal in the films of Roland Emmerich -- Crossing boundaries, connecting people : the German-American films of Percy Adlon -- "Bambi, Zombie, Gandhi" : the cinema of Tom Tykwer.…”

The director's cut : picturing Hollywood in the 21st century : conversations with 21 contemporary filmmakers / edited by Stephan Littger ; foreword by Dan Kleinman.

Table of Contents: “…Richard Donner, American television -- Stephen Frears, British Television -- Wolfgang Petersen, German television -- Mary Harron, journalist/documentary filmmaker -- Mira Nair, documentary filmmaker -- Sydney Pollack, actor -- Andrew Davis, cinematographer -- Barry Levinson, performer/comedy writer -- Chris Weitz, writer -- Andrew Adamson, CG/visual effects -- Bryan Singer, "37 jobs" -- David Fincher, commercials/music videos -- Alejandro Iñárritu, radio DJ/composer/advertisement -- Michel Gondry, musician/music videos -- Peter Segal, local television -- Stephen Sommers, music manager -- Brett Ratner, music videos -- Mark Waters, theater director -- Marc Forster -- James Mangold -- Tim Story.…”

Reading Homer : film and text / edited by Kostas Myrsiades.

Table of Contents: “…Burgess -- Redefining Homeric heroism in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy / Charles C. Chiasson -- The Odyssey and Frank Capra's It's a wonderful life / Bruce Louden -- Reading The gunfighter as Homeric epic / Kostas Myrsiades.…”
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Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics / edited by Almut-Barbara Renger and Jon Solomon.

Table of Contents: “…Mythological AncientsOver His Dead Body: Male Friendship in Homer's Iliad and Wolfgang Petersen's Troy (2004); Models of Masculinities in Troy: Achiles, Hector and Their Female Partners; "Include me out" -- Odysseus on the Margins of European Genre Cinema: Le Mépris, Ulisse, L'Odissea ; Between Mythical and Rational Worlds: Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini ; "Universal's Religious Bigotry against Hinduism": Gender Norms and Hindu Authority in the Global Media Debate on Representing the Hindu God Krishna in Xena: Warrior Princess ; Mythological and Historical Thematics.…”
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Foreign affairs : the National Society of Film Critics' video guide to foreign films / edited by Kathy Schulz Huffhines.

Table of Contents: “…Recommended from elsewhere in west and east Europe -- Bille August -- Gabriel Axel -- Costa Gavras -- Doris Dorrie -- Victor Erice -- Lasse Hallstrom -- Ermanno Olmi -- Wolfgang Petersen -- Edgar Reitz -- Jerzy Skolimowski -- Istvan Szabo -- Giuseppe Tornatore -- Pt. 8. …”