From Caligari to Hitler (eBook)

A Psychological History of the German Film

Siegfried Kracauer (Autor)

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2019
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19208-6 (ISBN)

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Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) was a film critic and independent sociologist and theorist. He is the author of The Mass Ornament and Theory of Film (Princeton). Leonardo Quaresima is professor of film history and criticism and director of cinema studies at the University of Udine.

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An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticismFirst published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel. He explores the connections among film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer makes a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation.With a critical introduction by Leonardo Quaresima which provides context for Kracauer's scholarship and his contributions to film studies, this Princeton Classics edition makes an influential work available to new generations of cinema enthusiasts.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.4.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Einführung: Leonardo Quaresima
• Zusatzinfo: 64 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: absurdity • Acting • adolescence • affair • Ambiguity • Asta Nielsen • Brigitte Helm • brothel • Carl Mayer • Close-up • code of honor • Criticism • curator • Determination • Documentary Film • Dziga Vertov • Emil Jannings • Entertainment • enthusiasm • Episode • Erich Pommer • E. T. A. Hoffmann • Farce • Faust • Film • film industry • filmmaking • Footage • Frederick the Great • Freikorps • Fritz Lang • From Caligari to Hitler • Gerhart Hauptmann • Germans • Heinrich Mann • Henny Porten • Henrik Galeen • humiliation • Ideology • Illus • Illustration • Intertitle • Karl Freund • Leni Riefenstahl • Lighting • Literature • Max Reinhardt • Melodrama • Meyer Schapiro • middle class • Misery (novel) • Mountain film • movie theater • Multitude • Napoleon • Narration • narrative • Nazi Germany • Nazi Propaganda • Nazism • Neverland • new objectivity • newsreel • Nuremberg • operetta • optimism • Pacifism • photography • pity • Pola Negri • procession • Propaganda • propaganda film • prussia • resentment • Robert Wiene • Romanticism • sadness • Satire • screenwriter • Silent Film • Social Criticism • Social reality • Subtitle (captioning) • Suffering • Suggestion • Symptom • Tartuffe • Thea von Harbou • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari • The Germans • The Other Hand • Track Down • Transliteration • Unemployment • Universum Film AG • unrest • War Film • Werner Krauss • World War I
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19208-1 / 0691192081
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19208-6 / 9780691192086