Weimar cinema and after
Thomas Elsaesser
Weimar cinema and after : Germany's historical imaginary /Thomas Elsaesser - London ; New York : Routledge, cop . 2000. - VIII-472 p. ; 24 cm
1. Haunted Screens, Caligari's Cabinets and a German Studio-System 2. In the Realm of the Look: Lang, Lubitsch, Murnau and Pabst 3. Transparent Duplicities: Comedy, Opera, Operetta 4. After Weimar: Avantgarde and Modernisation, Emigration and Film Noir
Offering a framework for understanding German film of the 1920s, the author shows how films such as "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari", "Pandora's Box" and "The Blue Angel" are key films in defining a nation uneasy with itself and troubled by a modernity that was to have devastating consequences.
9780415012355
SARAS Books ;2/31,Ansari Road,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002
Arts
Motion pictures--inéma -- Allemagne -- Histoire.
791.43094 ELS
Weimar cinema and after : Germany's historical imaginary /Thomas Elsaesser - London ; New York : Routledge, cop . 2000. - VIII-472 p. ; 24 cm
1. Haunted Screens, Caligari's Cabinets and a German Studio-System 2. In the Realm of the Look: Lang, Lubitsch, Murnau and Pabst 3. Transparent Duplicities: Comedy, Opera, Operetta 4. After Weimar: Avantgarde and Modernisation, Emigration and Film Noir
Offering a framework for understanding German film of the 1920s, the author shows how films such as "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari", "Pandora's Box" and "The Blue Angel" are key films in defining a nation uneasy with itself and troubled by a modernity that was to have devastating consequences.
9780415012355
SARAS Books ;2/31,Ansari Road,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002
Arts
Motion pictures--inéma -- Allemagne -- Histoire.
791.43094 ELS
