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Manifeste und Dokumente zur deutschen Literatur 1918-1933. Weimarer Republik
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ISBN: 3476004147 3476004139 9783476004130 9783476004147 Year: 1983 Publisher: Stuttgart : J.B. Metzler Verlag,

Expressionismus in Amerika: Rezeption und Innovation
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ISBN: 3484180382 Year: 1975 Publisher: Tübingen

From Hitler to Heimat : the return of history as film.
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ISBN: 0674324552 0674324560 Year: 1992 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) Harvard university press


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Deutschlandbilder : die Wiederkehr der Geschichte als Film
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ISBN: 3883772607 Year: 1987 Publisher: München Text + Kritik


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ISBN: 9780851703701 Year: 2008 Publisher: London BFI

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Expressionismus in Amerika : Rezeption und Innovation
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Year: 1975 Publisher: Tübingen : Max Niemeyer,

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ISBN: 9781839022913 Year: 2021 Publisher: London Bloomsbury on behalf of the British Film Institute

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Fritz Lang's 'M' (1931) is an undisputed classic of world cinema. Lang considered it his most lasting work. Peter Lorre's extraordinary performance as the childlike misfit Hans Beckert was one of the most striking of film debuts, and it made him an international star. Lang's vision of a city gripped with fear, haunted by surveillance and total mobillization, is still remarkably powerful today. And 'M' resonates too in the serial-killer genre which is so prominent in contemporary cinema. 'M' speaks to us as a timeless classic, but also as a Weimar film that has too often been isolated from its political and cultural context. In this groundbreaking book, Anton Kaes reconnects 'M''s much-studied formal brilliance to its significance as an event in 1931 Germany, recapturing the film's extraordinary social and symbolic energy. Interweaving close reading with cultural history, Kaes reconstitutes 'M' as a crucial modernist artwork. In addition he analyzes Joseph Losey's 1951 film noir remake and, in an appendix, publishes for the first time 'M''s missing scene. (Provided by publisher)

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Shell Shock Cinema : Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War
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ISBN: 1282303880 9786612303883 1400831199 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Shell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. In this exciting new book, Anton Kaes argues that masterworks such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The Nibelungen, and Metropolis, even though they do not depict battle scenes or soldiers in combat, engaged the war and registered its tragic aftermath. These films reveal a wounded nation in post-traumatic shock, reeling from a devastating defeat that it never officially acknowledged, let alone accepted. Kaes uses the term "shell shock"--coined during World War I to describe soldiers suffering from nervous breakdowns--as a metaphor for the psychological wounds that found expression in Weimar cinema. Directors like Robert Wiene, F. W. Murnau, and Fritz Lang portrayed paranoia, panic, and fear of invasion in films peopled with serial killers, mad scientists, and troubled young men. Combining original close textual analysis with extensive archival research, Kaes shows how this post-traumatic cinema of shell shock transformed extreme psychological states into visual expression; how it pushed the limits of cinematic representation with its fragmented story lines, distorted perspectives, and stark lighting; and how it helped create a modernist film language that anticipated film noir and remains incredibly influential today. A compelling contribution to the cultural history of trauma, Shell Shock Cinema exposes how German film gave expression to the loss and acute grief that lay behind Weimar's sleek façade.


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Kino-Debatte : texte zum Verhà¤ltnis von Literatur und Film, 1909-1929
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Year: 1978 Publisher: Tübingen Niemeyer

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