Weimar Cinema (An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era)

Weimar Cinema (An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era)

EditorNoah Isenberg
PublisherColumbia University Press
Copyright HolderColumbia University Press
Contributing WriterStefan 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
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationNew York, NY
Copyright2009
This Edition Published2009-01-00
Pages / Font360 pages
ISBN978-0-231-13055-4
ChaptersAcknowledgments 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: Paul May's Early Weimar Blockbuster, The Indian Tomb (1921), 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, 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 Contributors Index
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