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German Essays on Film by Richard McCormick

This fascinating volume is for all serious students of European cinema as well as historians of Germany in the 20th century. German Essays on Film is divided into five parts: Late Wilhelmine Germany; Weimar Republic (1918-33); Inside the Third Reich (1933-45); Intellectuals in Exile; and Postwar Germany: since 1945. Among the writers, thinkers, filmmakers, and scholars anthologized are: Alfred D blin, Georg Luk cs, Claire Goll, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau, Joseph Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer, R. W. Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Gertrud Koch, and many others. The introduction by McCormick and Guenther-Pal along with generous headnotes help to put all these essays into historic perspective.

About Richard McCormick

Richard W. McCormick is Director, Honors-College of Liberal Arts and Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. Alison Guenther-Pal teaches at the University of Minnesota in the Department of German, Scandanavian and Dutch.

Introduction: Richard W. McCormick and Alison Guenther-Pal 1. LATE WILHELMINE GERMANY Artists, Critics, and Scholars
ALFRED DOBLIN The Theater of the Little People HERBERT TANNENBAUM Art at the Cinema MALWINE RENNERT An Abyss Not to Be Bridged GEORG LUKACS Thoughts on an Aesthetics of Cinema WALTER SERNER Cinema and the Desire to Watch HANNS HEINZ EWERS Film and I MALWINE RENNERT War Films EMILIE ALTENLOH From On the Sociology of the Cinema All translated by Lance W. Garmer 2. WEIMAR REPUBLIC, 1918-33 Writers, Critics, and Artists HERBERT IHERING An Expressionist Film Translated by Lance W. Garmer CLAIRE GOLL American Cinema Translated by Lance W. Garmer HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL The Substitute for Dreams Translated by Lance W. Garmer CARL EINSTEIN The Bankruptcy of German Films Translated by Lance W. Garmer FRITZ LANG The Artistic Composition of the Film Drama Translated by Lance W. Garmer F.W. MURNAU The Ideal Picture Needs No Titles: By Its Very Nature the Art of the Screen Should Tell a Complete Story Pictorially Translated by Theatre magazine Theorists BELA BALAZS From The Visible Human Translated by Lance W. Garmer SIEGFRIED KRACAUER The Little Shopgirls Go to the Movies Translated by Thomas Y. Levin BERTOLT BRECHT From The Three Penny Trial: A Sociological Experiment Translated by Lance W. Garmer RUDOLF ARNHEIM From Film Translated by L.M. Sieveking and Ian F.D. Morrow 3. NAZI GERMANY 1933-45--AND THOSE WHO FLED.... Artists and Bureaucrats in the Third Reich JOSEPH GOEBBELS Dr. Goebbels's Speech at teh Kaiserhof on March 28, 1933 LENI RIEFENSTAHL May the Strength and Beauty of Youth Have Found Cinematic Form VEIT HARLAN History and Film FRITZ HIPPLER The Formative Power of Film HELMUT KAUTNER Gratitude toward the Theater All translated by Lance W. Garmer Intellectuals in Exile MAX HORKHEIMER AND THEODOR W. ADORNO The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception Translated by John Cumming SIEGFRIED KRACAUER Introduction to From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of German Film LOTTE H. EISNER Introduction to The Haunted Screen: Experssionism in the German Cinema and the Influcence of Max Reinhardt Translated by Roger Greaves 4. POSTWAR GERMANY: 1945 TO THE PRESENT Film Artists WOLFGANG STAUDTE A Letter to the Central Military Commander of the Soviet Occupation Zone Translated by Lance W. Garmer GUNTER GROLL, HELMUT KAUTNER, AND WALTER TALMON-GOS Every Audience, as Everybody Knows, Has the Film It Deserves Translated by Lance W. Garmer THE OBERHAUSEN MANIFESTO Translated by Eric Rentschler ALEXANDER KLUGE What Do the Oberhauseners Want? Translated by Eric Rentschler WOLFGANG STAUDTE A Reflection: Befouling Our Own Nest? Translated by Lance W. Garmer WIM WENDERS That's Entertainment: Hitler Translated and abridged by Eric Rentschler HELKE SANDER Feminism and Film Translated by Ramona Curry KONRAD WOLF On the Possibilities of Socialist Film Art: Reactions to Mama, I'm Alive Translated by Lance W. Garmer RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER From The Third Generation Translated by Krishna Winston THE MANIFESTO OF THE WOMEN FILM WORKERS Translated by Eric Rentschler JUTTA BRUCKNER Women's Films Are Searches for Traces Translated by Antje Masten WOLFGANG KOHLHAASE DEFA: A Personal View Translated by Margaret Vallance Critics, Scholars, and Theorists ENNO PATALAS On German Postwar Film Translated by Lance W. Garmer THEODOR W. ADORNO Transparencies on Film Translated by Thomas Y. Levin GERTRUD KOCH Ex-Changing the Gaze: Re-Visioning Feminist Film Theory HEIDE SCHLUPMANN Melodrama and Social Drama in the Early German Cinema Translated by Jamie Owen Daniel KARSTEN WITTE The Indivisible Legacy of Nazi Cinema Bibliography: Primary Sources

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German Essays on Film by Richard McCormick

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Richard McCormick

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German Library

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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2004-06-01

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336

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