The promise of cinema [electronic resource]: German film theory, 1907-1933 / edited by Anton Kaes, N...
The promise of cinema [electronic resource]: German film theory, 1907-1933 / edited by Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer, Michael Cowan.
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
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2016
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1 online resource (701 pages)
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computer
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Contents
The Kientopp (1907) / Hanns Heinz Ewers -- Cinematographic theater (1909) / Max Brod -- On living photography and the film drama (1909) / Gustav Melcher -- A new task for the cinema (1909) / Kurt Weisse -- New terrain for cinematographic theaters (1909) / Anon. -- The career of the cinematograph (19...
The cinema ballad (1913) / Ulrich Rauscher -- Quo vadis, cinema? (1913) / Kurt Pinthus -- The student of Prague (1913) / Anon. -- The call for art (1913) / Hermann Haˆfker -- Problems of the film drama (1913-14) / Herbert Tannenbaum -- The new illusion (11913-14) / Will Scheller -- The photoplay (19...
The threepenny lawsuit (1931) / Bertolt Brecht -- The banned Kuhle Wampe (1932) / Herbert Jhering -- Film and conviction (1933) / Georg Wilhelm Pabst -- Thoughts toward an aesthetic of the cinema (1911) / Georg Lukacs -- The effects of the film theater (1912) / Alfred A. Baeumler -- A substitute for...
Cinematography in the service of neurology and psychiatry (1910) / Hans Hennes - The cinematograph in biological and medical science (1911) / Osvaldo Polimanti -- The cultural mission of the cinematograph (1912) / Leonhard Birnbaum -- Cinema in the light of medicine (1913) / Der Kinematograph -- Fil...
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
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California
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[2016]
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"Rich in implications for our present era of media change, The Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of "theory" not as a fixed body of canonical texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of cinema and the possibilities once associated with it. Unearthing more than 275 early-twentiet...
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The promise of cinema [electronic resource]: German film theory, 1907-1933 / edited by Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer, Michael Cowan.
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Weimar and now: German cultural criticism ; 49
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Print version: Promise of cinema : German film theory, 1907-1933. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] Weimar and now: German cultural criticism ; 49 9780520219076 (DLC)18909389
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9780520962439 (e-book)
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791.430943
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991024307516002626