Weimar cinema : an essential guide to classic films of the era / edited by Noah Isenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Isenberg, Noah William.

Series:

Film and culture.

Film and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Germany--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Silent films--Germany--History and criticism.

Silent films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde and fantasy films, sexual intrigues and love stories, the classics of silent cinema and Germany's first talkies, each chapter illuminates, among other things: the technological advancements of a given film, its detailed production history, its critical reception over time, and the place it occupies within the larger history

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 Madchen 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography: p. [331]-339.

ISBN:

9786613627810

9781280597985

1280597984

9780231503853

0231503857

OCLC:

787844819