| Description |
viii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Film and culture series |
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Film and culture.
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| Contents |
Suggestion, hypnosis, and crime : Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) / Stefan Andriopoulos -- Of monsters and magicians : Paul Wegener's The golem : how he came into the world (1920) / Noah Isenberg -- Movies, money, and mystique : Joe May's early Weimar blockbuster, The Indian tomb (1921) / Christian Rogowski -- No end to Nosferatu (1922) / Thomas Elsaesser -- Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, the gambler (1922) : grand enunciator of the Weimar era / Tom Gunning -- Who gets the last laugh? : old age and generational change in F.W. Murnau's The last laugh (1924) / Sabine Hake -- Inflation and devaluation : gender, space, and economics in G.W. Pabst's The joyless street (1925) / Sara F. Hall -- Tradition as intellectual montage : F.W. Murnau's Faust (1926) / Matt Erlin -- Metropolis (1927) : city, cinema, modernity / Anton Kaes -- Berlin, symphony of a great city (1927) : city, image, sound / Nora M. Alter -- Surface sheen and charged bodies : Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's box (1929) / Margaret McCarthy -- The bearable lightness of being : People on Sunday (1930) / Lutz Koepnick -- National cinemas/international film culture : The blue Angel (1930) in multiple language versions / Patrice Petro -- Coming out of the uniform : political and sexual emancipation in Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in uniform (1931) / Richard W. McCormick -- Fritz Lang's M (1931) : an open case / Todd Herzog -- Whose revolution? The subject of Kuhle Wampe (1932) / Marc Silberman |
| Summary |
In this comprehensive companion to Weimar cinema, chapters address the technological advancements of each film, their production and place within the larger history of German cinema, the style of the director, the actors and the rise of the German star, and the critical reception of the film |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes filmography: pages [331]-339 |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures -- Germany -- History.
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Silent films -- Germany -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Isenberg, Noah William.
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| LC no. |
2008029682 |
| ISBN |
0231130546 (cased) |
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0231130554 (paperback) |
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0231503857 (ebk.) |
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9780231130547 (cased) |
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9780231130554 (paperback) |
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9780231503853 (ebk.) |
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