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Author(s): Lotte H. Eisner, Roger Greaves
ISBN(s): 9780520257900, 0520257901
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
File Details: PDF, 115.87 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0520257901 

ISBN 13: 9780520257900

Author: Lotte H. Eisner

The Golden Age of German cinema began at the end of the First World War and ended shortly after the coming of sound. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari onwards the principal films of this period were characterized by two influences: literary Expressionism, and the innovations of the theatre directors of this period, in particular Max Reinhardt. This book demonstrates the connection between German Romanticism and the cinema through Expressionist writings. It discusses the influence of the theatre: the handling of crowds; the use of different levels, and of selective lighting on a predominately dark stage; the reliance on formalized gesture; the innovation of the intimate theatre. Against this background the principal films of the period are examined in detail. The author explains the key critical concepts of the time, and surveys not only the work of the great directors, such as Fritz Lang and F. W. Murnau, but also the contribution of their writers, cameramen, and designers. As The Times Literary Supplement wrote, ‘Mme. Eisner is first and foremost a film critic, and one of the best in the world. She has all the necessary gifts.’ And it described the original French edition of this book as ‘one of the very few classics of writing on the film and arguably the best book on the cinema yet written.’

Table of contents:

  1. The Predisposition towards Expressionism

  2. The Beginnings of the Expressionist Film

  3. The Spell of Light: the Influence of Max Reinhardt

  4. Lubitsch and the Costume Film

  5. The Stylized Fantastic

  6. The Symphonies of Horror

  7. ‘Decorative’ Expressionism

  8. The World of Shadows and Mirrors

  9. Studio Architecture and Landscape

  10. The Expressionist Debut of a ‘Realistic’ Director

  11. Kammerspielfilm and Stimmung

  12. Murnau and the Kammerspielfilm

  13. The Handling of Crowds

  14. The Fritz Lang Thriller

  15. Tragedies of the Street

  16. The Evolution of the Costume Film

  17. The Eye of the Camera in E.A. Dupont

  18. The Climax of the Chiaroscuro

  19. Pabst and the Miracle of Louise Brooks

  20. The Decline of the German Film

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