Expressionist film
Subtitle: new perspectives
By: edited by Dietrich Scheunemann.
Contributors: Scheunemann, Dietrich.
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture; Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781571133502; 9781571130686
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Germany -- History; Expressionism
Notes: "The present volume is the first outcome of a joint research project carried out by the Centre for European Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh, the Institute for Film Studies at the University of Mainz and the German Film Museum in Frankfurt am Main."--P xii.

Includes filmography: p. [271]-278.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: Activating the differences : expressionist film and early Weimar cinema / Dietrich Scheunemann; title: Weimar cinema, mobile selves, and anxious males : Kracauer and Eisner revisited / Thomas Elsaesser; title: Revolution, power, and desire in Ernst Lubitsch's Madame Dubarry / Marc Silberman; title: "Bringing the ghostly to life" : Fritz Lang and his early Dr. Mabuse films / Norbert Grob; title: Murnau, a conservative filmmaker? : on film history as intellectual history / Thomas Koebner; title: The double, the décor, and the framing device : once more on Robert Wiene's The cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Dietrich Scheunemann; title: Film as graphic art : on Karl Heinz Martin's From morn to midnight / Jürgen Kasten; title: Episodic patchwork : the bric-à-brac principle in Paul Leni's Waxworks / Jürgen Kasten; title: Entrapment and escape : readings of the city in Karl Grune's The street and G.W. Pabst's The joyless street / Anthony Coulson; title: Fragmenting the space : on E.A. Dupont's Varieté / Thomas Brandlmeier; title: On Murnau's Faust : a generic Gesamtkunstwerk? / Helmut Schanze; title: "Painting in time" and "visual music" : on German avant-garde films of the 1920s / Walter Schobert; title: Ruttmann, rhythm, and "reality" : a response to Siegfried Kracauer's interpretation of Berlin, the symphony of a great city / David Macrae.