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Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era
N Isenberg
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Description for Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era
Paperback. Editor(s): Isenberg, Noah. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 532.
Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde and fantasy films, sexual intrigues and love stories, the classics of silent cinema and Germany's first talkies, each chapter illuminates, among other things: the technological advancements of a given film, its detailed production history, its critical reception over time, and the place it occupies within the larger history of the German studio and of Weimar cinema in general. Readers can revisit ... Read more
Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde and fantasy films, sexual intrigues and love stories, the classics of silent cinema and Germany's first talkies, each chapter illuminates, among other things: the technological advancements of a given film, its detailed production history, its critical reception over time, and the place it occupies within the larger history of the German studio and of Weimar cinema in general. Readers can revisit ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Film and Culture Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231130554
SKU
V9780231130554
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About N Isenberg
Noah Isenberg is associate professor of University Humanities at Eugene Lang College-The New School, where he teaches literature, film, and intellectual history. He is the author, most recently, of Detour (British Film Institute, 2008).
Reviews for Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era
Weimar Cinema is the volume on this fascinating era of international film history.
Gerd Gemunden Bookforum A super collection of essays about sixteen dynamite flicks. 944 Los Angeles This superb collection... [is] an excellent overview of the critical frameworks of German film studies... Essential. Choice A well-constructed and welcome introduction to a number of classics.
Philipp Stiasny German ... Read more
Gerd Gemunden Bookforum A super collection of essays about sixteen dynamite flicks. 944 Los Angeles This superb collection... [is] an excellent overview of the critical frameworks of German film studies... Essential. Choice A well-constructed and welcome introduction to a number of classics.
Philipp Stiasny German ... Read more