German Essays on Film [Paperback]

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.

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 Lancl$