Edited by Alexander Böhnke, Rembert Hüser and Georg Stanitzek, this German-language anthology is a rigorous academic treatment of the film title sequence as a distinct formal and cultural object. The title is a Godard quote, and the framing is deliberately film-theoretical: the Vorspann is not an introduction to a film but a cinematic form in its own right, combining image, typography, animation, sound and optical effects into a condensed reading of what follows.
The volume collects previously untranslated key texts from international film studies alongside original analyses, most focused on the Hollywood title sequence. For students working at the intersection of motion design and film history, it provides the theoretical vocabulary the field otherwise lacks.