num_pages: 352
description: German cinema is best known for its art cinema and its long line of outstanding individual directors. The double spotlight on these two subject has only deepened the obscurity surrounding the popular cinema. German Cinema performs a kind of archaeology on a period largely the first two decades of German cinema. This collection of essays by established authors refocuses the terms of a debate that will develop in the years to come concerning the historical and cultural significance of popular cinema in Wilhelmine Germany.
language: English
title: A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades
titlecomplete: A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades (Film Culture in Transition)
genres: Film
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Amsterdam University Press