Activating the Differences: Expressionist Film and Early Weimar
Cinema - Dietrich Scheunemann
Weimar Cinema, Mobile Selves, and Anxious Males: Kracauer and
Eisner Revisited - Thomas Elsaesser
Revolution, Power, and Desire in Ernst Lubitsch's Madame Dubarry -
Marc Silberman
"Bringing in the Ghostly to Life": Fritz Lang and his Early Dr.
Mabuse Films - Norbert Grob
Murnau--a Conservative Filmmaker? On Film History as Intellectual
History - Thomas Koebner
The Double, the Décor,and the Framing Device: Once more on Robert
Wiene's Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Dietrich Scheunemann
Film as Graphic Art: On Karl Heinz Martin's From Morn to Midnight -
Juergen Kasten
Episodic Patchwork: The Bric-à-Brac Principle in Paul Leni's
Waxworks - Juergen Kasten
Entrapment and Escape: Readings of the City in Karl Grune's The
Street and G. W. Pabst's The Joyless Street - Anthony Coulson
Fragmenting the Space: On E. A. Dupont's Varieté - Thomas
Brandlmeier
On Murnau's Faust: A Generic Gesamtkunstwerk? - Helmut Schanze
"Painting in Time" and "Visual Music": On German Avant-Garde Film
of the 1920s - Walter Schobert
Ruttmann, Rhythm, and "Reality": A Response to Kracauer's
Interpretation of Berlin. Symphony of a Great City - David Macrae
DIETRICH SCHEUNEMANN is professor of German at the University of Edinburgh and has written and edited several books on German literature and on film and media.
With a nod to the pioneering work of Siegfried Kracauer and Lotte
Eisner, [the book] proposes to overcome the reductive tendencies of
their scholarship with a historiography that emphasizes complex and
asynchronous historical developments....
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Among the collection's greatest strengths are the reassessment of
the maddeningly elusive category of 'expressionist' film - the
editor should be commended for his insistence on giving more nuance
and specificity to the term - and the vibrant mix of genre
discussions from horror and fantasy and the so-called 'street
films' to early historical dramas and the avant-garde film.
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