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Unconditional Satisfaction GuaranteeNo Shipping Fees Above 302 Months to Decide. Returns Simplified.Edited by Laurence Kardish. With contributions by Ulrich Dge, Thomas Elsaesser, Laurence Kardish, Claudia Lenssen, Eric Rentschler, and Werner Sudendorff
German cinema from the end of World War I to 1933the years of the Weimar Republicis widely appreciated for an Expressionist style of filmmaking characterized by anxiety, distorted narrative, and vivid plays of light and shadow. Far less well-known in the United States are the period’s musicals, romances, and comedies, lighter films that were made in equal numbers as the darker fare.Weimar Cinema, 19191933: Daydreams and Nightmares puts these contrary approaches side by side, examining the full spectrum of Weimar filmmaking through essays by prominent contemporary scholars and a selection of eighty films. Excerpts from reviews and other writings evoke the reception of these movies at the time, as the use of sound in film gained purchase and the economic and political situation in Germany moved the country toward another, darker historical moment. 216 pp.; 150 illus.
