Peripheral Visions: The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema

Book Overview

An insightful overview of an important era in cinema.

The title of this collection echoes Siegfried Kracauer's statement that the lavish movie palaces of 1920s Germany served to stimulate peripheral vision and thus prevent the audience from being absorbed by the spectacle itself. In consideration of questions concerning spatial transformations in and around Weimar cinema, the eight essays in this volume, though some more explicitly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814329284
• ISBN13: 9780814329283
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"