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THE CINEMAS THIRD MACHINE: WRITING ON FILM IN GERMANY 1907-1933 (MODERN GERMAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE)
ISBN: 080322365X
ISBN 13: 9780803223653
Author: SABINE HAKE
Edition: 1 st
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Publication Date: Sep 01, 1993
Pages: 354
ISBN 13: 9780803223653
Author: SABINE HAKE
Edition: 1 st
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Publication Date: Sep 01, 1993
Pages: 354
Book Summary
The improvements in the technology, artistry, and distribution of motion pictures coincided with the traumas of modern Germany. It is hardly to be wondered that filmmakers frequently turned their cameras on Germany's social and political problems that propagandists regularly sought to manipulate them, that entrepreneurs tried to exploit them, and that German thinkers brooded upon the relationship between German society, politics, and the films that represented them all. From these tangled motives a rich discourse on film emerged that paralleled or anticipated discourses in the other film centers of the world.
The Cinema's Third Machine reproduces the diversity of perspectives and the intensity of controversies of early German film within the broad context of German social and political history, from the aesthetic rapture of the first years to the institutionalization of film by the national socialist state. Many texts have been rediscovered and are now presented to modern scholars for the first time. Hake treats all aspects of the medium: production, promotion, education, journalism, aesthetics, and political activism, following throughout the various forms criticism assumed.
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