TY - BOOK AU - Thomas Elsaesser AU - Thomas Elsaesser TI - Weimar cinema and after : : Germany's historical imaginary SN - 9780415012355 U1 - 791.43094 ELS PY - 2000/// CY - London ; New York PB - : Routledge, cop KW - Arts KW - Motion pictures KW - inéma -- Allemagne -- Histoire N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -