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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas Elsaesser |
ISBN: | 0415012341 9780415012348 041501235X 9780415012355 9781135078522 1135078521 |
OCLC Number: | 43296638 |
Awards: | Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award, 2001. |
Description: | viii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | List of illustrations -- PART I. HAUNTED SCREENS: CALIGARI'S CABINETS AND A GERMAN STUDIO SYSTEM. Introduction: Weimar cinema's impersonations -- Expressionist film or Weimar cinema? With Siegfried Kracauer and Lotte Eisner (once more) to the movies -- Caligari's family: Expressionism, frame tales and master-narratives -- Erich Pommer, 'Die UFA', and Germany's bid for a studio system. -- PART II. IN THE REALM OF THE LOOK: LANG, LUBITSCH, MURNAU AND PABST. Fritz Lang's traps for the mind and eye: Dr Mabuse the gambler and other disguise artists -- The old and the new regime of the gaze: Ernst Lubitsch and Madame Dubarry -- Nosferatu, Tartuffe and Faust: secret affinities in Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau -- Lulu and the meter man: Louise Brooks, G.W. Pabst and Pandora's box. -- PART III. TRANSPARENT DUPLICITIES: COMEDY, OPERA, OPERETTA. Hallo Caesar!: Reinhold Schünzel, a German Chaplin? -- Transparent duplicities: Pabst's The Threepenny opera -- It's the end of the song: Walter Reisch, operetta and the double negative. -- PART IV. AFTER WEIMAR: AVANT-GARDE AND MODERNISATION, EMIGRATION AND FILM NOIR. To be or not to be: extra-territorial in Vienna-Berlin-Hollywood -- Lifestyle propaganda: modernity and modernisation in early thirties films -- Caligari's legacy? Film noir as film history's German imaginary. -- Bibliography -- Index of films -- General index. |
Series Title: | Film studies. |
Responsibility: | Thomas Elsaesser. |
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Abstract:
Offers a fresh perspective on this most 'national' of national cinemas, re-evaluating the arguments which view genres and movements as typically German contributions to twentieth century visual culture.
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'A monumental work of research by any standard.' - Sight and Sound

