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Author:

Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966 author.

Title:

From Caligari to Hitler : a psychological history of the German film / by Siegfried Kracauer ; edited and introduced by Leonardo Quaresima.

Edition:

First Princeton classics edition.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

lii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Motion pictures--Germany--History.
Motion pictures--Germany--Psychological aspects.
National socialism and motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Psychological aspects.
National socialism and motion pictures.
Germany.
History.

Other Authors:

Quaresima, Leonardo, editor.

Notes:

Reprint of the revised and expanded edition, 2004. Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-332) and indexes.

Contents:

The archaic period (1895-1918). Peace and war ; Forebodings ; Genesis of Ufa -- The postwar period (1918-1924). The shock of freedom ; Caligari ; Procession of tyrants ; Destiny ; Mute chaos ; Crucial dilemma ; From rebellion to submission -- The stabilized period (1924-1929). Decline ; Frozen ground ; The prostitute and the adolescent ; The new realism ; Montage ; Brief reveille -- The pre-Hitler Period (1930-1933). Songs and illusions ; Murderer among us ; Timid heresies ; For a better world ; National epic -- Supplement : propaganda and the Nazi war film. Nazi views and measures ; Film devices ; The swastika world ; Screen dramaturgy ; Conflict with reality.

Series:

Princeton classics

ISBN:

0691191344
9780691191348

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1051135052

Locations:

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)