Expressionismus und Film

By Rudolf Kurtz

Expressionism and Film, originally published in German in 1926, is not only a classic of film history, but also an important work from the early phase of modern media history. Written with analytical brilliance and historical vision by a well-known contemporary of the expressionist movement, it captures Expressionism at the time of its impending conclusion--as an intersection of world view, resoluteness of form, and medial transition. Though one of the most frequently-cited works of Weimar culture, Kurtz's groundbreaking work, which is on a par with Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler and Lotte Eisner's The Haunted Screen, has never been published in English. Its relevance and historical contexts are analyzed in a concise afterword by the Swiss scholars Christian Kiening and Ulrich Johannes Beil.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861967186
• ISBN13: 9780861967186
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: John Libbey & Company
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher