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1 online resource (xiv, 321 pages) |
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German Library |
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German library.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Richard W. McCormick, Alison Guenther-Pal -- Late Wilhelmine Germany -- Artists, Critics, and Scholars -- The Theater of the Little People / Alfred Doblin -- Art at the Cinema / Herbert Tannenbaum -- An Abyss Not to Be Bridged / Malwine Rennert -- Thoughts on an Aesthetics of Cinema / Georg Lukacs -- Cinema and the Desire to Watch / Walter Serner -- Film and I / Hanns Heinz Ewers -- War Films / Malwine Rennert -- From On the Sociology of the Cinema / Emilie Altenloh -- Weimar Republic, 1918-33 -- Writers, Critics, and Artists -- An Expressionist Film / Herbert Ihering -- American Cinema / Claire Goll -- The Substitute for Dreams / Hugo von Hofmannsthal -- The Bankruptcy of German Film / Carl Einstein -- The Artistic Composition of the Film Drama / Fritz Lang -- The Ideal Picture Needs No Titles: By Its Very Nature the Art of the Screen Should Tell a Complete Story Pictorially / F.W. Murnau -- Theorists -- From The Visible Human / Bela Balazs -- The Little Shopgirls Go to the Movies / Siegfried Kracauer -- From The Three Penny Trial: A Sociological Experiment / Bertolt Brecht -- From Film / Rudolf Arnheim -- Nazi Germany 1933-45--And Those Who Fled ... -- Artists and Bureaucrats in the "Third Reich" -- Dr. Goebbels's Speech at the Kaiserhof on March 28, 1933 / Joseph Goebbels -- May the Strength and Beauty of Youth Have Found Cinematic Form / Leni Riefenstahl -- History and Film / Veit Harlan -- The Formative Power of Film / Fritz Hippler -- Gratitude toward the Theater / Helmut Kautner |
| Summary |
This fascinating volume is for all serious students of European cinema as well as historians of Germany in the 20th century. "German Essays on Film" is divided into five parts: Late Wilhelmine Germany; Weimar Republic (1918-33); Inside the "Third Reich" (1933-45); Intellectuals in Exile; and Postwar Germany: since 1945. Among the writers, thinkers, filmmakers, and scholars anthologized are: Alfred D blin, Georg Luk cs, Claire Goll, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Joseph Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Siegfrie |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-318) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Germany.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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Motion pictures
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Filmtheorie
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Film
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Filmtheorie.
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Motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Germany.
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Germany
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Deutschland
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| Genre/Form |
Motion pictures
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Motion pictures.
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Films.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McCormick, Richard W., 1951-
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Guenther-Pal, Alison.
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| ISBN |
9781441159632 |
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1441159630 |
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9781628928754 |
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1628928751 |
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1283272075 |
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9781283272070 |
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9786613272072 |
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6613272078 |
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