| Ministry of illusion: Nazi cinema and its afterlife E Rentschler Harvard University Press, 1996 | 545 | 1996 |
| From New German Cinema to the Postwall Cinema of Consensus E Rentschler Cinema and Nation, 260-277, 2000 | 210* | 2000 |
| German Film & Literature E Rentschler Routledge, 2013 | 130 | 2013 |
| West German film in the course of time: Reflections on the twenty years since Oberhausen E Rentschler Redgrave Publishing Company, 1984 | 101 | 1984 |
| Mountains and modernity: Relocating the Bergfilm E Rentschler New German Critique, 137-161, 1990 | 87 | 1990 |
| West German Filmmakers on Film: Visions and Voices E Rentschler (No Title), 1988 | 74 | 1988 |
| The Films of GW Pabst: An Extraterritorial Cinema E Rentschler (No Title), 1990 | 43 | 1990 |
| The Place of Rubble in the Trümmerfilm E Rentschler New German Critique 37 (2), 9-30, 2010 | 41 | 2010 |
| How American is it: The US as image and imaginary in German film E Rentschler German Quarterly, 603-620, 1984 | 40 | 1984 |
| Remembering Not to Forget: A Retrospective Reading of Kluge's Brutality in Stone E Rentschler New German Critique, 23-41, 1990 | 32 | 1990 |
| The Use and Abuse of Memory: New German Film and the Discourse of Bitburg E Rentschler New German Critique, 67-90, 1985 | 31 | 1985 |
| Fatal Attractions: Leni Riefenstahl's" The Blue Light" E Rentschler October 48, 47-68, 1989 | 28 | 1989 |
| American Friends and New German Cinema: Patterns of Reception E Rentschler New German Critique, 7-35, 1981 | 27 | 1981 |
| The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present E Rentschler Columbia University Press, 2015 | 25 | 2015 |
| Terms of dismemberment: the body in/and/of Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) E Rentschler German Film & Literature, 305-321, 2013 | 22 | 2013 |
| The Fascination of a Fake: The Hitler Diaries E Rentschler Cultures of Forgery, 199-212, 2013 | 22 | 2013 |
| The films of GW Pabst E Rentschler An extraterritorial cinema, 1990 | 21 | 1990 |
| Postwall Prospects: An Introduction E Rentschler New German Critique, 3-5, 2002 | 18 | 2002 |
| There's no place like home: Luis Trenker's The Prodigal Son (1934) E Rentschler New German Critique, 33-56, 1993 | 17 | 1993 |
| The politics of vision: Herzog's Heart of Glass E Rentschler The Films of Werner Herzog, 159-182, 2013 | 16 | 2013 |
