A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades

By: Thomas Elsaesser

Book Overview

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. German Cinema 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9053561722
• ISBN13: 9789053561720
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"