The promise of cinema : German film theory, 1907-1933 / edited by Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer, and Michael Cowan.
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TextSeries: Weimar and now ; 49.Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xv, 682 pages ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520219083 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century | Film criticism -- Germany | Motion pictures -- History -- 20th century | Film criticism | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 791.4'3'0943 Summary: Rich in implications for our present era of media change, this book offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of 'theory' not as a fixed body of canonical texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of cinema and the possibilities once associated with it. Unearthing more than 275 early-twentieth-century German texts, this documentation leads readers into a world that was striving to assimilate modernity's most powerful new medium.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rich in implications for our present era of media change, this book offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of 'theory' not as a fixed body of canonical texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of cinema and the possibilities once associated with it. Unearthing more than 275 early-twentieth-century German texts, this documentation leads readers into a world that was striving to assimilate modernity's most powerful new medium.
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