German essays on film / edited by Richard W. McCormick and Alison Guenther-Pal.

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Published: New York : Continum, c2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Richard W. McCormick and Alison Guenther-Pal
  • 1. Late Wilhelmine Germany
  • The theater of the little people / Alfred Doblin
  • Art at the cinema / Herbert Tannenbaum
  • An abyss not to be bridged / Malwine Rennert
  • Thoughts on an aesthetics of cinema / Georg Lukacs
  • Cinema and the desire to watch / Walter Serner
  • Film and I / Hanns Heinz Ewers
  • War films / Malwine Rennert
  • From On the Sociology of the Cinema / Emilie Altenloh
  • 2. Weimar republic, 1918-33
  • An expressionist film / Herbert Ihering
  • American cinema / Claire Goll
  • The substitute for dreams / Hugo von Hofmannsthal
  • The bankruptcy of German film / Carl Einstein
  • The artistic composition of the film drama / Fritz Lang
  • The ideal picture needs no titles : by its very nature the art of the screen should tell a complete story pictorially / F. W. Murnau
  • From the visible human / Bela Balazs
  • The little shopgirls go to the movies / Siegfried Kracauer
  • From the three penny trial : a sociological experiment / Bertolt Brecht
  • From film / Rudolf Arnheim
  • 3. Nazi Germany 1933-45 - and those who fled ...
  • Dr. Goebbels's speech at the Kaiserhof on March 28, 1933 / Joseph Goebbels
  • May the strength and beauty of youth have found cinematic form / Leni Riefenstahl
  • History and film / Veit Harlan
  • The formative power of film / Fritz Hippler
  • Gratitude toward the theater / Helmut Kautner
  • The culture industry : enlightenment as mass deception / Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno
  • Introduction to From Caligari to Hitler : a psychological history of German film / Siegfried Kracauer
  • Introduction to The haunted screen : expressionism in the German cinema and the influence of Max Reinhardt / Lotte H. Eisner
  • 4. Postwar Germany : 1945 to the present
  • A letter to the central military commander of the Soviet occupation zone / Wolfgang Staudte
  • Every audience, as everybody knows, has the films it deserves / Gunter Groll, Helmut Kautner and Walter Talmon-Gros
  • The Oberhausen manifesto
  • What do the "Oberhauseners" want? / Alexander Kluge
  • A reflection : befouling our own nest? / Wolfgang Staudte
  • That's entertainment : Hitler / Wim Wenders
  • Feminism and film / Helke Sander
  • On the possibilities of socialist film art : reactions to Mama, I'm alive / Konrad Wolf
  • From The third generation / Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • The manifesto of the women film workers
  • Women's films are searches for traces / Jutta Bruckner
  • DEFA : a personal view / Wolfgang Kohlhaase
  • On German postwar film / Enno Patalas
  • Transparencies on film / Theodor W. Adorno
  • Ex-changing the gaze : re-visioning feminist film theory / Gertrud Koch
  • Melodrama and social drama in the early German cinema / Heide Schlupmann
  • The indivisible legacy of Nazi cinema / Karsten Witte.