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The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy

The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy

Rogowski, Christian
Wahl, Chris
Hans, Anjeana K.

Paperback

Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual, Book 5

Literary CriticismFilm StudiesGerman History

ISBN10: 1571135324
ISBN13: 9781571135322
Publisher: Camden House Inc
Published: Dec 15 2011
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
New essays re-evaluating Weimar cinema from a broadened, up-to-date perspective.

Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, expressionist film, has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But in recent decades, such reductive assessments have been challenged by developments in film theory and archival research that highlight the tremendous richness and diversity of Weimar cinema. This widening of focus has brought attention to issues such as film as commodity; questions of technology and genre; transnational collaborations and national identity; effects of changes in socioeconomics and gender roles onfilm spectatorship; and connections between film and other arts and media. Such shifts have been accompanied by archival research that has made a cornucopia of new information available, now augmented by the increased availability of films from the period on DVD. This wealth of new source material calls for a re-evaluation of Weimar cinema that considers the legacies of lesser-known directors and producers, popular genres, experiments of the artistic avant-garde, and nonfiction films, all of which are aspects attended to by the essays in this volume.

Contributors: Ofer Ashkenazi, Jaimey Fisher, Veronika Fuechtner, Joseph Garncarz, Barbara Hales, Anjeana Hans, Richard W.McCormick, Nancy P. Nenno, Elizabeth Otto, Mihaela Petrescu, Theodore F. Rippey, Christian Rogowski, Jill Smith, Philipp Stiasny, Chris Wahl, Cynthia Walk, Valerie Weinstein, Joel Westerdale.

Christian Rogowski is Professor of German at Amherst College.

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