Weimar Cinema
An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era
Published on 9. January 2009
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Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-0-231-13055-4 (ISBN)
Description
Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde and fantasy films, sexual intrigues and love stories, the classics of silent cinema and Germany's first talkies, each chapter illuminates, among other things: the technological advancements of a given film, its detailed production history, its critical reception over time, and the place it occupies within the larger history of the German studio and of Weimar cinema in general. Readers can revisit the careers of such acclaimed directors as F. W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, and G. W. Pabst and examine the debuts of such international stars as Greta Garbo, Louise Brooks, and Marlene Dietrich. Training a keen eye on Weimer cinema's unusual richness and formal innovation, this anthology is an essential guide to the revolutionary styles, genres, and aesthetics that continue to fascinate us today.
Reviews / Votes
Weimar Cinema is the volume on this fascinating era of international film history. -- Gerd Gemunden Bookforum A super collection of essays about sixteen dynamite flicks. 944 Los Angeles This superb collection... [is] an excellent overview of the critical frameworks of German film studies... Essential. Choice A well-constructed and welcome introduction to a number of classics. -- Philipp Stiasny German History Weimar Cinema will prove equally useful to teachers of undergraduates as to those engaging in ongoing scholarly research into this fascinating period in German filmhistory. -- Ian Roberts Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television With its detailed filmography and intelligently organized index, this work could easily serve as the primary textbook for a survey of Weimar film. -- Glenn R. Cuomo German Studies ReviewMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
527 gr
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978-0-231-13055-4 (9780231130554)
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Noah Isenberg is associate professor of University Humanities at Eugene Lang College-The New School, where he teaches literature, film, and intellectual history. He is the author, most recently, of Detour (British Film Institute, 2008).
Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Suggestion, Hypnosis, and Crime: Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), by Stefan Andriopoulos 2. Of Monsters and Magicians: Paul Wegener's The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920), by Noah Isenberg 3. Movies, Money, and Mystique, by Christian Rogowski 4. No End to Nosferatu (1922), by Thomas Elsaesser 5. Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922): Grand Enunciator of the Weimar Era, by Tom Gunning 6. Who Gets the Last Laugh? Old Age and Generational Change in F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924), by Sabine Hake 7. Inflation and Devaluation: Gender, Space, and Economics in G. W. Pabst's The Joyless Street (1925), by Sara F. Hall 8. Tradition as Intellectual Montage: F. W. Murnau's Faust (1926), by Matt Erlin 9. Metropolis (1927): City, Cinema, Modernity, by Anton Kaes 10. Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (1927): City, Image, Sound, by Nora M. Alter 11. Surface Sheen and Charged Bodies: Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's Box (1929), by Margaret McCarthy 12. The Bearable Lightness of Being: People on Sunday (1930), by Lutz Koepnick 13. National Cinemas / International Film Culture: The Blue Angel (1930) in Multiple Language Versions, by Patrice Petro 14. Coming Out of the Uniform: Political and Sexual Emancipation in Leontine Sagan's Madchen in Uniform (1931), by Richard W. McCormick 15. Fritz Lang's M (1931): An Open Case, by Todd Herzog 16. Whose Revolution? The Subject of Kuhle Wampe (1932), by Marc Silberman Filmography Contributors Index