The Promise of Cinema German Film Theory, 1907-1933 - Weimar and Now

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-twentieth-century German texts, this ground-breaking documentation leads readers into a world that was striving to assimilate modernity's most powerful new medium. We encounter lesser-known essays by Béla Balázs, Walter Benjamin, and Siegfried Kracauer alongside interventions from the realms of aesthetics, education, industry, politics, science, and technology. The book also features programmatic writings from the Weimar avant-garde and from directors such as Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. Nearly all documents appear in English for the first time; each is meticulously introduced and annotated. The most comprehensive collection of German writings on film published to date, The Promise of Cinema is an essential resource for students and scholars of film and media, critical theory, and European culture and history.

ISBN:	9780520219083
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	01 Mar 2016
DEWEY:	791.430943
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xv, 682
Weight:	1444g
Height:	182mm
Width:	253mm
Spine width:	39mm

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