German Essays on Film

This fascinating volume is for all serious students of European cinema as well as historians of Germany in the 20th century. "German Essays on Film" is divided into five parts: Late Wilhelmine Germany; Weimar Republic (1918-33); Inside the "Third Reich" (1933-45); Intellectuals in Exile; and Postwar Germany: since 1945. Among the writers, thinkers, filmmakers, and scholars anthologized are: Alfred D blin, Georg Luk cs, Claire Goll, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau, Joseph Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer, R. W. Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Gertrud Koch, and many others. The introduction by McCormick and Guenther-Pal along with generous headnotes help to put all these essays into historic perspective.

Introduction: Richard W. McCormick and Alison Guenther-Pal

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1. LATE WILHELMINE GERMANY

Artists, Critics, and Scholars

ALFRED DÖBLIN

The Theater of the Little People

1

(2)

HERBERT TANNENBAUM

Art at the Cinema

3

(4)

MALWINE RENNERT

An Abyss Not to Be Bridged

7

(4)

GEORG LUKÁCS

Thoughts on an Aesthetics of Cinema

11

(6)

WALTER SERNER

Cinema and the Desire to Watch

17

(5)

HANNS HEINZ EWERS

Film and I

22

(2)

MALWINE RENNERT

War Films

24

(5)

EMILIE ALTENLOH

From On the Sociology of the Cinema

29

(19)

All translated by Lance W. Garmer

2. WEIMAR REPUBLIC, 1918-33

Writers, Critics, and Artists

HERBERT IHERING

An Expressionist Film

48

(2)

Translated by Lance W. Garmer

CLAIRE GOLL

American Cinema

50

(2)

Translated by Lance W. Garmer

HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL

The Substitute for Dreams

52

(5)

Translated by Lance W. Garmer

CARL EINSTEIN

The Bankruptcy of German Film

57

(3)

Translated by Lance W. Garmer

FRITZ LANG

The Artistic Composition of the Film Drama

60

(6)

Translated by Lance W. Garmer

F.W. MURNAU

The Ideal Picture Needs No Titles: By Its Very Nature the Art of the Screen Should Tell a Complete Story Pictorially

66

(3)

Translated by Theatre magazine

Theorists

BÉLA BALÁZS

From The Visible Human

69

(30)

Translated by Lance W. Garmer

SIEGFRIED KRACAUER

The Little Shopgirls Go to the Movies

99

(12)

Translated by Thomas Y. Levin

BERTOLT BRECHT

From The Three Penny Trial: A Sociological Experiment

111

(22)

Translated by Lance W. Garmer

RUDOLF ARNHEIM

From Film

133

(20)

Translated by L.M. Sieveking and Ian F.D. Morrow

3. NAZI GERMANY 1933-45 - AND THOSE WHO FLED...

Artists and Bureaucrats in the "Third Reich"

JOSEPH GOEBBELS

Dr. Goebbels's Speech at the Kaiserhof on March 28, 1933

153

(6)

LENI RIEFENSTAHL

May the Strength and Beauty of Youth Have Found Cinematic Form

159

(1)

VEIT HARLAN

History and Film

160

(2)

FRITZ HIPPLER

The Formative Power of Film

162

(5)

HELMUT KÄUTNER

Gratitude toward the Theater

167

(2)

All translated by Lance W. Garmer

Intellectuals in Exile

MAX HORKHEIMER AND THEODOR W. ADORNO

The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception

169

(11)

Translated by John Cumming

SIEGFRIED KRACAUER

Introduction to From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of German Film

180

(9)

LOTTE H. EISNER

Introduction to The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt

189

(6)

Translated by Roger Greaves

4. POSTWAR GERMANY: 1945 TO THE PRESENT

Film Artists

WOLFGANG STAUDTE

A Letter to the Central Military Commander of the Soviet Occupation Zone

195

(3)

Translated by Lance W. Garmer

GUNTER GROLL, HELMUT KÄUTNER, AND WALTER TALMON-GROS

Every Audience, as Everybody Knows, Has the Films It Deserves

198

(3)

Translated by Lance W. Garmer

THE OBERHAUSEN MANIFESTO

201

(2)

Translated by Eric Rentschler

ALEXANDER KLUGE

What Do the "Oberhauseners" Want?

203

(3)

Translated by Eric Rentschler

WOLFGANG STAUDTE

A Reflection: Befouling Our Own Nest?

206

(2)

Translated by Lance W. Garmer

WIM WENDERS

That's Entertainment: Hitler

208

(7)

Translated and abridged by Eric Rentschler

HELKE SANDER

Feminism and Film

215

(7)

Translated by Ramona Curry

KONRAD WOLF

On the Possibilities of Socialist Film Art: Reactions to Mama, I'm Alive

222

(7)

Translated by Lance W. Garmer

RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER

From The Third Generation

229

(6)

Translated by Krishna Winston

THE MANIFESTO OF THE WOMEN FILM WORKERS

235

(2)

Translated by Eric Rentschler

JUTTA BRÜCKNER

Women's Films Are Searches for Traces

237

(5)

Translated by Antje Masten

WOLFGANG KOHLHAASE

DEFA: A Personal View

242

(9)

Translated by Margaret Vallance

Critics, Scholars, and Theorists

ENNO PATALAS

On German Postwar Film

251

(16)

Translated by Lance W. Garmer

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Transparencies on Film

267

(8)

Translated by Thomas Y. Levin

GERTRUD KOCH

Ex-Changing the Gaze: Re-Visioning Feminist Film Theory

275

(16)

HEIDE SCHLUPMANN

Melodrama and Social Drama in the Early German Cinema

291

(16)

Translated by Jamie Owen Daniel

KARSTEN WITTE

The Indivisible Legacy of Nazi Cinema

307

(8)

Bibliography: Primary Sources

315

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