A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades (Film Culture in Transition)

Elsaesser, Thomas T.P.

ISBN 10: 9053561722 / ISBN 13: 9789053561720

Published by Routledge, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades (Film Culture in Transition)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9053561722
• ISBN 13: 9789053561720
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

German cinema is best known for its art cinema and its long line of outstanding individual directors. The double spotlight on these two subject has only deepened the obscurity surrounding the popular cinema. A Second Life performs a kind of archaeology on a period largely overlooked: the first two decades of German cinema. This collection of essays by established authors refocuses the terms of a debate that will develop in the years to come concerning the historical and cultural significance of popular cinema in Wilhelmine Germany.

About the Author

Thomas Elsaesser (1943-2019) was Professor of Film and Television Studies in the Department of Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam.