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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43296638 Title: Weimar cinema and after : Germany's historical imaginary Author: Thomas Elsaesser Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000. ISBN/ISSN: 0415012341 9780415012348 041501235X 9780415012355 9781135078522 1135078521 OCLC:43296638

  
  

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Weimar cinema and after : Germany's historical imaginary

Author:	Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Series:	Film studies.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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 Germany as a nation uneasy with itself. The work of directors like Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and G.W. Pabst - having apparently announced the horrors of fascism, while testifying to the traumas of a defeated nation - still casts a long shadow over cinema in Germany, leaving film history and political history curiously intertwined. Weimar cinema and after: Germany's historical imaginary offers a fresh perspective on this most 'national' of national cinemas, re-evaluating such labels as 'Expressionist film' and 'The new Sobriety' and even putting 'fascinating fascism' and film noir in a different, international context. Thomas Elsaesser questions the conventional readings which link these genres and movements solely to the legacy of German romanticism and nationalism, and offers new approaches to analysing the function of national cinema in an advanced 'culture industry'. Elsaesser reads the major films as well as popular entertainment cinema against the contradictory background of avant-garde modernity and consumerist modernisation from the 1920s to the late 1930s. He argues that Weimar cinema's significance lay less in its ability either to promote socialism or predict fascism than in its contribution to the creation of a community sharing a 'historical imaginary' rather than a 'national identity'. In this respect, German cinema in the Weimar period anticipated some of the problems facing contemporary nations in reconstituting their identities by means of media images, memory and invented traditions. -- from back cover.  Read more...
Subjects	Motion pictures -- Germany -- History. Expressionism in motion pictures -- Germany. Cinéma -- Allemagne -- Histoire. View all subjects
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