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Author:

Roberts, Ian, 1967-

Title:

German expressionist cinema : the world of light and shadow / Ian Roberts.

Publisher:

Wallflower Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

132 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Motion pictures--Germany--History.
Expressionism in motion pictures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-129), filmography (p. 121-124) and index. Includes filmography: p. 121-124.

Contents:

Introduction : immanence, imagination and immortality -- Origins : expressionism and Weimar film -- Authority overthrown, or, lunatics in the asylum : Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari -- Demons without and within : F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu -- Images of the past, visions of the future : Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen and Metropolis -- Virgins and vamps : G.W. Pabst's Die Büchse der Pandora -- Street life and the end of expressionism : Joe May's Asphalt -- Conclusion : Weimar cinema's flights of fantasy.

Series:

Short cuts series ; 40

ISBN:

1905674600 (pbk.)
9781905674602 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)154711394

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)