Weimar cinema : an essential guide to classic films of the era /
edited by Noah Isenberg.
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
- viii, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Film and culture series .
- Film and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography: p. [331]-339.
Suggestion, hypnosis, and crime : Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) / Of monsters and magicians : Paul Wegener's The golem : how he came into the world (1920) / Movies, money, and mystique : Joe May's early Weimar blockbuster, The Indian tomb (1921) / No end to Nosferatu (1922) / Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, the gambler (1922) : grand enunciator of the Weimar era / Who gets the last laugh? : old age and generational change in F.W. Murnau's The last laugh (1924) / Inflation and devaluation : gender, space, and economics in G.W. Pabst's The joyless street (1925) / Tradition as intellectual montage : F.W. Murnau's Faust (1926) / Metropolis (1927) : city, cinema, modernity / Berlin, symphony of a great city (1927) : city, image, sound / Surface sheen and charged bodies : Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's box (1929) / The bearable lightness of being : People on Sunday (1930) / National cinemas/international film culture : The blue Angel (1930) in multiple language versions / Coming out of the uniform : political and sexual emancipation in Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in uniform (1931) / Fritz Lang's M (1931) : an open case / Whose revolution? The subject of Kuhle Wampe (1932) / Stefan Andriopoulos -- Noah Isenberg -- Christian Rogowski -- Thomas Elsaesser -- Tom Gunning -- Sabine Hake -- Sara F. Hall -- Matt Erlin -- Anton Kaes -- Nora M. Alter -- Margaret McCarthy -- Lutz Koepnick -- Patrice Petro -- Richard W. McCormick -- Todd Herzog -- Marc Silberman.
9780231130554 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0231130554 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0231130546 (cl : alk. paper)
2008029682
GBA8B1462 bnb
014759901 Uk
Motion pictures--History--Germany--20th century.
Silent films--History and criticism.--Germany
PN1993.5.G4 / W357 2009
791.430943/09042
Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography: p. [331]-339.
Suggestion, hypnosis, and crime : Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) / Of monsters and magicians : Paul Wegener's The golem : how he came into the world (1920) / Movies, money, and mystique : Joe May's early Weimar blockbuster, The Indian tomb (1921) / No end to Nosferatu (1922) / Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, the gambler (1922) : grand enunciator of the Weimar era / Who gets the last laugh? : old age and generational change in F.W. Murnau's The last laugh (1924) / Inflation and devaluation : gender, space, and economics in G.W. Pabst's The joyless street (1925) / Tradition as intellectual montage : F.W. Murnau's Faust (1926) / Metropolis (1927) : city, cinema, modernity / Berlin, symphony of a great city (1927) : city, image, sound / Surface sheen and charged bodies : Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's box (1929) / The bearable lightness of being : People on Sunday (1930) / National cinemas/international film culture : The blue Angel (1930) in multiple language versions / Coming out of the uniform : political and sexual emancipation in Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in uniform (1931) / Fritz Lang's M (1931) : an open case / Whose revolution? The subject of Kuhle Wampe (1932) / Stefan Andriopoulos -- Noah Isenberg -- Christian Rogowski -- Thomas Elsaesser -- Tom Gunning -- Sabine Hake -- Sara F. Hall -- Matt Erlin -- Anton Kaes -- Nora M. Alter -- Margaret McCarthy -- Lutz Koepnick -- Patrice Petro -- Richard W. McCormick -- Todd Herzog -- Marc Silberman.
9780231130554 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0231130554 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0231130546 (cl : alk. paper)
2008029682
GBA8B1462 bnb
014759901 Uk
Motion pictures--History--Germany--20th century.
Silent films--History and criticism.--Germany
PN1993.5.G4 / W357 2009
791.430943/09042