1st Edition
Weimar Cinema and After Germany's Historical Imaginary
By Thomas Elsaesser
Copyright 2000
480 Pages
by
Routledge
480 Pages
by
Routledge
480 Pages
by
Routledge
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German cinema of the 1920s is still regarded as one of the 'golden ages' of world cinema. Films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dr Mabuse the Gambler, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Pandora's Box and The Blue Angel have long been canonised as classics, but they are also among the key films defining an image of Germany as a nation uneasy with itself. The work of directors like Fritz Lang, F.W.... Read more
1. Haunted Screens, Caligari's Cabinets and a German Studio-System 2. In the Realm of the Look: Lang, Lubitsch, Murnau and Pabst 3. Transparent Duplicities: Comedy, Opera, Operetta 4. After Weimar: Avantgarde and Modernisation, Emigration and Film Noir
Biography
Thomas Elsaesser is at the University of Amsterdam
'A monumental work of research by any standard.' - Sight and Sound
