From Caligari to Hitler
Subtitle: A psychological history of the German film
By: by Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1947
Place of publication: Princeton, New Jersey
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Germany; Motion picture -- Germany -- Psychological aspects; National socialism and motion pictures; Film studies; Film history
Other titles: Propaganda and the Nazi war film.
Description: From the back cover: 

"The thesis of this unusually interesting book is that the German films of the twenties were filled with premonitions of the German totalitarianism of the thirties: that Hitler arose as the resolution of psychological dilemmas which had been reflected in the German movies and which accounted for both their greatness and their decline.... Dr. Kracauer illustrates his theme by a readable account of the evolution of the German film industry and the creation of the masterpieces.... The book's premise, of course, is that the films of a nation irresistibly disclose its dominant psychological dispositions.... This is an extraordinarily fruitful and stimulating approach." -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 'The Nation'

"This is an important book. It is important to the film student and researcher, important to the student of foreign affairs, but over and beyond that, it is important to anyone interested in the relationship of a society to its art." -- 'Theater Arts'
Notes: Bibliography: p. 333-346.
Includes as supplement (p. [273]-331) "Propaganda and the Nazi war film" which, with a few changes, is a reprint of the author's pamphlet of the same title issued in 1942 by the Museum of modern art Film library. cf. p. [273]
Includes 32 pages of black and white photographs in the back pages, beginning after page 361.