Table of Contents

Activating the Differences: Expressionist Film and Early Weimar Cinema - Dietrich Scheunemann
Weimar Cinema, Mobile Selves, and Anxious Males: Kracauer and Eisner Revisited - Thomas Elsaesser
Revolution, Power, and Desire in Ernst Lubitsch's Madame Dubarry - Marc Silberman
"Bringing in the Ghostly to Life": Fritz Lang and his Early Dr. Mabuse Films - Norbert Grob
Murnau--a Conservative Filmmaker? On Film History as Intellectual History - Thomas Koebner
The Double, the Décor,and the Framing Device: Once more on Robert Wiene's Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Dietrich Scheunemann
Film as Graphic Art: On Karl Heinz Martin's From Morn to Midnight - Juergen Kasten
Episodic Patchwork: The Bric-à-Brac Principle in Paul Leni's Waxworks - Juergen Kasten
Entrapment and Escape: Readings of the City in Karl Grune's The Street and G. W. Pabst's The Joyless Street - Anthony Coulson
Fragmenting the Space: On E. A. Dupont's Varieté - Thomas Brandlmeier
On Murnau's Faust: A Generic Gesamtkunstwerk? - Helmut Schanze
"Painting in Time" and "Visual Music": On German Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s - Walter Schobert
Ruttmann, Rhythm, and "Reality": A Response to Kracauer's Interpretation of Berlin. Symphony of a Great City - David Macrae

About the Author

DIETRICH SCHEUNEMANN is professor of German at the University of Edinburgh and has written and edited several books on German literature and on film and media.

Reviews

With a nod to the pioneering work of Siegfried Kracauer and Lotte Eisner, [the book] proposes to overcome the reductive tendencies of their scholarship with a historiography that emphasizes complex and asynchronous historical developments....
*GERMAN QUARTERLY*

Among the collection's greatest strengths are the reassessment of the maddeningly elusive category of 'expressionist' film - the editor should be commended for his insistence on giving more nuance and specificity to the term - and the vibrant mix of genre discussions from horror and fantasy and the so-called 'street films' to early historical dramas and the avant-garde film.
*MONATSHEFTE*