The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933 Volume 49

Book Overview

Rich in implications for our present era of media change, The Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of "theory" not as a fixed body of canonical texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of cinema and the possibilities once associated with it. Unearthing more than 275 early-twentieth-century German texts, this ground-breaking documentation leads readers into a world that was striving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520219082
• ISBN13: 9780520219083
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.9" x 9.9"