Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège (Zero for Conduct)

The film has remained to this day, as contemporary German cinema is still awaiting a more systemic effort at rejuvenating what constitutes the lifeblood of any properly functioning film industry: genre cinema. Marco Abel teaches film studies and continental theory in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska and is currently working on his second book, The Berlin School: Toward a Minor Cinema. He has a longer essay on Dominik Graf forthcoming in Generic Histories: Genre and its Deviations in German Cinema (ed. Jaimey Fisher)