Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era

by Noah Isenberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231130554
• ISBN13: 9780231130554
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher