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Weimar cinema and after : Germany's historical imaginary /Thomas Elsaesser

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: SARAS Books | ;2/31,Ansari Road,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, cop . 2000.Description: VIII-472 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415012355
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43094 ELS
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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