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The promise of cinema : German film theory, 1907--1933

Title
The promise of cinema : German film theory, 1907--1933 / edited by Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer, and Michael Cowan.
Publication
  • Oakland : University of California Press, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Kaes, Anton
  • Baer, Nicholas, 1985-
  • Cowan, Michael J., 1971-
Description
xv, 682 pages; 26 cm
Summary
"Rich in implications for our present era of media change, The Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of "theory" not as a fixed body of canonical texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of cinema and the possibilities once associated with it. Unearthing more than 275 early-twentieth-century German texts, this ground-breaking documentation leads readers into a world that was striving to assimilate modernitys most powerful new medium. We encounter lesser-known essays by Béla Balázs, Walter Benjamin, and Siegfried Kracauer alongside interventions from the realms of aesthetics, education, industry, politics, science, and technology. The book also features programmatic writings from the Weimar avant-garde and from directors such as Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. Nearly all documents appear in English for the first time; each is meticulously introduced and annotated. The most comprehensive collection of German writings on film published to date, The Promise of Cinema is an essential resource for students and scholars of film and media, critical theory, and European culture and history."--
Series Statement
Weimar and now German Cultural Criticism ; 49
Uniform Title
Weimar and now ; 49.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-638) and index.
Contents
Section one. Transformations of experience. The new sensorium ; The world in motion ; The time machine ; The magic of the body ; Spectatorship and sites of exhibition ; An art for the times -- Section two: Film culture and politics. Moral panic and reform ; Image wars ; The specter of Hollywood ; Cinephilia and the cult of stars ; The mobilization of the masses ; Chiffres of modernity -- Section three: Configurations of a medium. The expressionist turn ; Avant-garde and industry ; The aesthetics of silent film ; Film as knowledge and persuasion ; Sound waves ; Technology and the future of the past.
Call Number
MFL 16-3517
ISBN
  • 9780520219083
  • 0520219082
  • 9780520219076
  • 0520219074
  • 9780520962439 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015049570
OCLC
930776685
Title
The promise of cinema : German film theory, 1907--1933 / edited by Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer, and Michael Cowan.
Publisher
Oakland : University of California Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Weimar and now German Cultural Criticism ; 49
Weimar and now ; 49.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-638) and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Kaes, Anton, editor.
Baer, Nicholas, 1985- editor.
Cowan, Michael J., 1971- editor.
Research Call Number
MFL 16-3517
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