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A Culture of Light - Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany (Paperback, REV)
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A Culture of Light - Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany (Paperback, REV)
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Cinema is a medium of light. And during Weimar Germany's advance to
technological modernity, light - particularly the representational
possibilities of electrical light - became the link between the
cinema screen and the rapid changes that were transforming German
life. In Frances Guerin's compelling history of German silent
cinema of the 1920s, the innovative use of light is the pivot
around which a new conception of a national cinema, and a national
culture emerges. Guerin depicts a nocturnal Germany suffused with
light - electric billboards, storefronts, police searchlights - and
shows how this element of the mise-en-scene came to reflect both
the opportunities and the anxieties surrounding modernity and
democracy. Guerin's interpretations center on use of light in films
such as Schatten (1923), Variete (1925), Metropolis (1926), and Der
Golem (1920). In these films we see how light is the substance of
image composition, the structuring device of the narrative, and the
central thematic concern. This history relieves German films of the
responsibility to explain the political and ideological instability
of the period, an instability said to be the uncertain foundation
of Nazism. In unlocking this dubious link, A Culture of Light
redefines the field of German film scholarship.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2005 |
| First published: |
April 2005 |
| Authors: |
Frances Guerin
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 149 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
352 |
| Edition: |
REV |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-4286-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Films, cinema >
General
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| LSN: |
0-8166-4286-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780816642861 |
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