German essays on film / edited by Richard W. McCormick and Alison Guenther-Pal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guenther-Pal, Alison, editor.

McCormick, Richard W., 1951- editor.

Series:

German Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Germany.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Continum, 2004.

Language Note:

English

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, Siegfried Kracauer, R. W. Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Gertrud Koch, and many others. The introduction by McCormick and Guenther-Pal along with generous headnotes help to put all these essays into historic perspective

Contents:

Introduction: Richard W. McCormick and Alison Guenther-Pal

1. LATE WILHELMINE GERMANY

Artists, Critics, and Scholars

ALFRED DOBLIN

The Theater of the Little People

HERBERT TANNENBAUM

Art at the Cinema

MALWINE RENNERT

An Abyss Not to Be Bridged

GEORG LUKACS

Thoughts on an Aesthetics of Cinema

WALTER SERNER

Cinema and the Desire to Watch

HANNS HEINZ EWERS

Film and I

War Films

EMILIE ALTENLOH

From On the Sociology of the Cinema

All translated by Lance W. Garmer

2. WEIMAR REPUBLIC, 1918-33

Writers, Critics, and Artists

HERBERT IHERING

An Expressionist Film

Translated by Lance W. Garmer

CLAIRE GOLL

American Cinema

HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL

The Substitute for Dreams

CARL EINSTEIN

The Bankruptcy of German Films

FRITZ LANG

The Artistic Composition of the Film Drama

F.W. MURNAU

The Ideal Picture Needs No Titles: By Its Very Nature the Art of the Screen Should Tell a Complete Story Pictorially

Translated by Theatre magazine

Theorists

BELA BALAZS

From The Visible Human

SIEGFRIED KRACAUER

The Little Shopgirls Go to the Movies

Translated by Thomas Y. Levin

BERTOLT BRECHT

From The Three Penny Trial: A Sociological Experiment

RUDOLF ARNHEIM

From Film

Translated by L.M. Sieveking and Ian F.D. Morrow

3. NAZI GERMANY 1933-45

AND THOSE WHO FLED....

Artists and Bureaucrats in the "Third Reich"

JOSEPH GOEBBELS

Dr. Goebbels's Speech at teh Kaiserhof on March 28, 1933

LENI RIEFENSTAHL

May the Strength and Beauty of Youth Have Found Cinematic Form

VEIT HARLAN

History and Film

FRITZ HIPPLER

The Formative Power of Film

HELMUT KAUTNER

Gratitude toward the Theater

Intellectuals in Exile

MAX HORKHEIMER AND THEODOR W. ADORNO

The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception

Translated by John Cumming

Introduction to From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of German Film

LOTTE H. EISNER

Introduction to The Haunted Screen: Experssionism in the German Cinema and the Influcence of Max Reinhardt

Translated by Roger Greaves

4. POSTWAR GERMANY: 1945 TO THE PRESENT

Film Artists

WOLFGANG STAUDTE

A Letter to the Central Military Commander of the Soviet Occupation Zone

GUNTER GROLL, HELMUT KAUTNER, AND WALTER TALMON-GOS

Every Audience, as Everybody Knows, Has the Film It Deserves

THE OBERHAUSEN MANIFESTO

Translated by Eric Rentschler

ALEXANDER KLUGE

What Do the "Oberhauseners" Want?

A Reflection: Befouling Our Own Nest?

WIM WENDERS

That's Entertainment: Hitler

Translated and abridged by Eric Rentschler

HELKE SANDER

Feminism and Film

Translated by Ramona Curry

KONRAD WOLF

On the Possibilities of Socialist Film Art: Reactions to Mama, I'm Alive

RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER

From The Third Generation

Translated by Krishna Winston

THE MANIFESTO OF THE WOMEN FILM WORKERS

JUTTA BRUCKNER

Women's Films Are Searches for Traces

Translated by Antje Masten

WOLFGANG KOHLHAASE

DEFA: A Personal View

Translated by Margaret Vallance

Critics, Scholars, and Theorists

ENNO PATALAS

On German Postwar Film

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Transparencies on Film

GERTRUD KOCH

Ex-Changing the Gaze: Re-Visioning Feminist Film Theory

HEIDE SCHLUPMANN

Melodrama and Social Drama in the Early German Cinema

Translated by Jamie Owen Daniel

KARSTEN WITTE

The Indivisible Legacy of Nazi Cinema

Bibliography: Primary Sources

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-318).

ISBN:

9780826415067

9786613272072

9781628928754

1628928751

9781283272070

1283272075

9781441159632

1441159630

OCLC:

741691441