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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. E...
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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 of the German studio and of Weimar cinema in general. Readers can revisit the careers of such acclaimed directors as F. W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, and G. W. Pabst and examine the debuts of such international stars as Greta Garbo, Louise Brooks, and Marlene Dietrich. Training a keen eye on Weimer cinema's unusual richness and formal innovation, this anthology is an essential guide to the revolutionary styles, genres, and aesthetics that continue to fascinate us today.
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Price: $35.00
Pages: 376
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture Series
Publication Date: 09 January 2009
Trim Size: 9.25 X 6.12 in
ISBN: 9780231130554
Format: Paperback
BISACs: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Guides & Reviews
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Weimar Cinema is the volume on this fascinating era of international film history.
Noah Isenberg is associate professor of University Humanities at Eugene Lang College-The New School, where he teaches literature, film, and intellectual history. He is the author, most recently, of Detour (British Film Institute, 2008).

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Suggestion, Hypnosis, and Crime: Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), by Stefan Andriopoulos
2. Of Monsters and Magicians: Paul Wegener's The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920), by Noah Isenberg
3. Movies, Money, and Mystique, by Christian Rogowski
4. No End to Nosferatu (1922), by Thomas Elsaesser
5. Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922): Grand Enunciator of the Weimar Era, by Tom Gunning
6. Who Gets the Last Laugh? Old Age and Generational Change in F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924), by Sabine Hake
7. Inflation and Devaluation: Gender, Space, and Economics in G. W. Pabst's The Joyless Street (1925), by Sara F. Hall
8. Tradition as Intellectual Montage: F. W. Murnau's Faust (1926), by Matt Erlin
9. Metropolis (1927): City, Cinema, Modernity, by Anton Kaes
10. Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (1927): City, Image, Sound, by Nora M. Alter
11. Surface Sheen and Charged Bodies: Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's Box (1929), by Margaret McCarthy
12. The Bearable Lightness of Being: People on Sunday (1930), by Lutz Koepnick
13. National Cinemas / International Film Culture: The Blue Angel (1930) in Multiple Language Versions, by Patrice Petro
14. Coming Out of the Uniform: Political and Sexual Emancipation in Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931), by Richard W. McCormick
15. Fritz Lang's M (1931): An Open Case, by Todd Herzog
16. Whose Revolution? The Subject of Kuhle Wampe (1932), by Marc Silberman
Filmography
Contributors
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