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Weimar cinema : an essential guide to classic films of the era / edited by Noah Isenberg.

Contributor(s): Isenberg, Noah WilliamMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Film and culturePublication details: New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press, 2008Description: 368 p. : illISBN: 9780231130554 (pbk.) :; 0231130554 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Motion pictures -- Germany -- History | Silent films -- Germany -- History and criticismDDC classification: 791.4'3'0943'09042
Contents:
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
Summary: In this comprehensive companion to Weimar cinema, chapters address the technological advancements of each film, their production and place within the larger history of German cinema, the style of the director, the actors and the rise of the German star, and the critical reception of the film.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

In this comprehensive companion to Weimar cinema, chapters address the technological advancements of each film, their production and place within the larger history of German cinema, the style of the director, the actors and the rise of the German star, and the critical reception of the film.

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