Weimar Cinema
An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era
1st Edition
Published on 9. January 2009
376 pages
978-0-231-50385-3 (ISBN)
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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.
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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, by Hypnosis
Stefan Andriopoulos
2. Of Monsters and Magicians: Paul Wegener's The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920)
Noah Isenberg
3. Movies, by Money
Christian Rogowski
4. No End to Nosferatu (1922)
Thomas Elsaesser
5. Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, by the Gambler (1922): Grand Enunciator of the Weimar Era
Tom Gunning
6. Who Gets the Last Laugh? Old Age and Generational Change in F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924)
Sabine Hake
7. Inflation and Devaluation: Gender, by Space
Sara F. Hall
8. Tradition as Intellectual Montage: F. W. Murnau's Faust (1926)
Matt Erlin
9. Metropolis (1927): City, by Cinema
Anton Kaes
10. Berlin, by Symphony of a Great City (1927): City
Nora M. Alter
11. Surface Sheen and Charged Bodies: Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's Box (1929)
Margaret McCarthy
12. The Bearable Lightness of Being: People on Sunday (1930)
Lutz Koepnick
13. National Cinemas& thinsp;/& thinsp;International Film Culture: The Blue Angel (1930) in Multiple Language Versions
Patrice Petro
14. Coming Out of the Uniform: Political and Sexual Emancipation in Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
Richard W. McCormick
15. Fritz Lang's M (1931): An Open Case
Todd Herzog
16. Whose Revolution? The Subject of Kuhle Wampe (1932)
Marc Silberman
Filmography
Contributors
Index
Introduction
1. Suggestion, by Hypnosis
Stefan Andriopoulos
2. Of Monsters and Magicians: Paul Wegener's The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920)
Noah Isenberg
3. Movies, by Money
Christian Rogowski
4. No End to Nosferatu (1922)
Thomas Elsaesser
5. Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, by the Gambler (1922): Grand Enunciator of the Weimar Era
Tom Gunning
6. Who Gets the Last Laugh? Old Age and Generational Change in F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924)
Sabine Hake
7. Inflation and Devaluation: Gender, by Space
Sara F. Hall
8. Tradition as Intellectual Montage: F. W. Murnau's Faust (1926)
Matt Erlin
9. Metropolis (1927): City, by Cinema
Anton Kaes
10. Berlin, by Symphony of a Great City (1927): City
Nora M. Alter
11. Surface Sheen and Charged Bodies: Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's Box (1929)
Margaret McCarthy
12. The Bearable Lightness of Being: People on Sunday (1930)
Lutz Koepnick
13. National Cinemas& thinsp;/& thinsp;International Film Culture: The Blue Angel (1930) in Multiple Language Versions
Patrice Petro
14. Coming Out of the Uniform: Political and Sexual Emancipation in Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
Richard W. McCormick
15. Fritz Lang's M (1931): An Open Case
Todd Herzog
16. Whose Revolution? The Subject of Kuhle Wampe (1932)
Marc Silberman
Filmography
Contributors
Index
