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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherWayne State University Press
ISBN-100814325602
ISBN-139780814325605
eBay Product ID (ePID)249529
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
Publication NameGerman Cinema : Texts in Context
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEuropean / German, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year1995
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Performing Arts
AuthorMarc Silberman
SeriesContemporary Approaches to Film and Media Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight19.4 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN95-020032
ReviewsFinally, a comprehensive study of the German cinema that offers insightful close readings and contextual analyses to specialists in film and German studies, as well as to a more general readership.
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal791.43/0943
SynopsisThis text presents the history of the German cinema through close readings of films representing five major periods: Weimar cinema, cinema in the Third Reich, postwar cinema, East German cinema, and the New German cinema., In the history of German cinema, film directors have developed unique visual and narrative responses to the anxieties and excesses of their own times and those of Germany's past. German Cinema is the first English-language volume to provide a comprehensive historical overview of German film from the silent era to the present, as well as close readings of individual films., German Cinema is the first English-language volume to provide a comprehensive historical overview of German film from the silent era to the present, as well as close readings of individual films. In the history of German cinema, film directors have developed unique visual and narrative responses to the anxieties and excesses of their own times and those of Germany's past. German Cinema is the first English-language volume to provide a comprehensive historical overview of German film from the silent era to the present, as well as close readings of individual films.