Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936 (Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual)
Barbara F. Hales
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Description for Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936 (Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual)
Hardcover. New essays examining the differences and commonalities between late Weimar-era and early Nazi-era German cinema against a backdrop of the crises of that time. Num Pages: 344 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 31. Weight in Grams: 668.
Hitler's Machtergreifung, or seizure of power, on January 30, 1933, marked the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the Third Reich, and German film scholarship has generally accepted this date as the break between Weimar and Nazi-era film as well. This collection of essays interrogates the continuities and discontinuities in German cinema before and after January 1933 and their relationship to the various crises of the years 1928 to 1936 in seven areas: politics, the economy, concepts of race and ethnicity, the making of cinema stars, genre cinema, film technologies and aesthetics, and German-international film relations. Focusing ... Read more
Hitler's Machtergreifung, or seizure of power, on January 30, 1933, marked the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the Third Reich, and German film scholarship has generally accepted this date as the break between Weimar and Nazi-era film as well. This collection of essays interrogates the continuities and discontinuities in German cinema before and after January 1933 and their relationship to the various crises of the years 1928 to 1936 in seven areas: politics, the economy, concepts of race and ethnicity, the making of cinema stars, genre cinema, film technologies and aesthetics, and German-international film relations. Focusing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571139351
SKU
V9781571139351
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99-50
Reviews for Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936 (Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual)
[A] newly nuanced portrait of the interruptions and interconnections between the film cultures of late Weimar and early National Socialist Germany. . . . Each of the essays in the volume will find an eager readership for its particular topic; taken together, the articles . . . promise to have a significant impact on how German Studies as a field ... Read more