The promise of cinema : German film theory, 1907--1933 / edited by Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer, and Michael Cowan.

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9780520962439
0520962435
0520219074
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Promise of cinema.DDC classification:

791.430943 23

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PN1993.5.G3 P765 2016

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AP 45100

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Cover; THE PROMISE OF CINEMA; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments ; User's Guide ; Introduction ; SECTION ONE. TRANSFORMATIONS OF EXPERIENCE ; 1. A New Sensorium ; 1. Hanns Heinz Ewers, The Kientopp (1907) ; 2. Max Brod, Cinematographic Theater (1909).

3. Gustav Melcher, On Living Photography and the Film Drama (1909) 4. Kurt Weisse, A New Task for the Cinema (1909) ; 5. Anon., New Terrain for Cinematographic Theaters (1910) ; 6. Anon., The Career of the Cinematograph (1910) ; 7. Karl Hans Strobl, The Cinematograph (1911).

8. Ph. Sommer, On the Psychology of the Cinematograph (1911) 9. Hermann Kienzl, Theater and Cinematograph (1911) ; 10. Adolf Sellmann, The Secret of the Cinema (1912) ; 11. Arno Arndt, Sports on Film (1912) ; 12. Carl Forch, Thrills in Film Drama and Elsewhere (1912-13).

13. Lou Andreas-Salomé, Cinema (1912-13) 14. Walter Hasenclever, The Kintopp as Educator: An Apology (1913) ; 15. Walter Serner, Cinema and Visual Pleasure (1913) ; 16. Albert Hellwig, Illusions and Hallucinations during Cinematographic Projections (1914) ; 2. The World in Motion.

17. H. Ste., The Cinematograph in the Service of Ethnology (1907) 18. O. Th. Stein, The Cinematograph as Modern Newspaper (1913-14) ; 19. Hermann Häfker, Cinema and Geography: Introduction (1914) ; 20. Yvan Goll, The Cinedram (1920) ; 21. Hans Schomburgk, Africa and Film (1922).

Summary: 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 alongs.

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880-01 Cover; THE PROMISE OF CINEMA; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments ; User's Guide ; Introduction ; SECTION ONE. TRANSFORMATIONS OF EXPERIENCE ; 1. A New Sensorium ; 1. Hanns Heinz Ewers, The Kientopp (1907) ; 2. Max Brod, Cinematographic Theater (1909).

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 alongs.

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English.

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