De Caligari A Hitler

Author : Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691191344
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Caligari to Hitler written by Siegfried Kracauer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel. He explores the connections among film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer makes a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. With a critical introduction by Leonardo Quaresima which provides context for Kracauer’s scholarship and his contributions to film studies, this Princeton Classics edition makes an influential work available to new generations of cinema enthusiasts.

Author : Eric Kurlander
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300190379
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Monsters written by Eric Kurlander and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A dense and scholarly book about . . . the relationship between the Nazi party and the occult . . . reveals stranger-than-fiction truths on every page.”—Daily Telegraph The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler’s personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich’s relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire. “[Kurlander] shows how swiftly irrational ideas can take hold, even in an age before social media.”—The Washington Post “Deeply researched, convincingly authenticated, this extraordinary study of the magical and supernatural at the highest levels of Nazi Germany will astonish.”—The Spectator “A trustworthy [book] on an extraordinary subject.”—The Times “A fascinating look at a little-understood aspect of fascism.”—Kirkus Reviews “Kurlander provides a careful, clear-headed, and exhaustive examination of a subject so lurid that it has probably scared away some of the serious research it merits.”—National Review

Author : Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher :
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Download or read book From Caligari to Hitler written by Siegfried Kracauer and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Rentschler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674576407
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ministry of Illusion written by Eric Rentschler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview of Nazi cinema

Author : Noah William Isenberg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231130554
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weimar Cinema written by Noah William Isenberg and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive companion to Weimar cinema, chapters address the technological advancements of each film, their production and place within the larger history of German cinema, the style of the director, the actors and the rise of the German star, and the critical reception of the film.

Author : Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674551633
Total Pages : 420 pages
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Download or read book The Mass Ornament written by Siegfried Kracauer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mass Ornament today remains a refreshing tribute to popular culture, and its impressively interdisciplinary writings continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on the ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy of film theory and cultural studies, Weimar cultural politics, and, not least, the exigencies of intellectual exile.

Author : Gertrud Koch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823641
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Siegfried Kracauer written by Gertrud Koch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a naïve realist, appreciated as an astute critic of early German film, and noticed as the interesting exile who exchanged letters with Erwin Panofsky. But he is most widely thought of as the odd uncle of famed Frankfurt School critical theorists Jürgen Habermas, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Max Horkheimer. Recently, however, scholars have rediscovered in Kracauer's writings a philosopher, sociologist, and film theorist important beyond his associations--and perhaps one of the most significant cultural critics of the twentieth century. Gertrud Koch advances this Kracauer renaissance with the first-ever critical assessment of his entire body of work. Koch's analysis, which is concise without sacrificing thoroughness or sophistication, covers both Kracauer's best-known publications (e.g., From Caligari to Hitler, in which he gleans the roots of National Socialism in the films of the Weimar Republic) and previously underexamined texts, including two newly discovered autobiographical novels. Because Kracauer's wide-ranging works emerge from no rigidly unified approach, instead always remaining open to unusual and highly individual perspectives, Koch resists the temptation to force generalization. She does, however, identify recurring tropes in Kracauer's lifetime effort to perceive the basic posture and composition of particular cultures through their visual surfaces. Koch also finds in Kracauer a surprisingly contemporary cultural commentator, whose ideas speak directly to current discussions on film, urban modernity, feminism, cultural representation, violence, and other themes. This book was long-awaited in Germany, as well as widely and well reviewed. Now translated into English for the first time, it will fuel already growing interest in the United States, where Kracauer lived and wrote from 1941 until his death in 1966. It will attract the attention of students and scholars working in Film Studies, German Studies, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, and History.

Author : Siegfried Kracauer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 369 pages
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Download or read book From Caligari to Hitler written by Siegfried Kracauer and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher : Grupo Planeta (GBS)
ISBN 13 : 9788475093369
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book De Caligari a Hitler written by Siegfried Kracauer and published by Grupo Planeta (GBS). This book was released on 1995 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siegfied Kracauer, De Caligari a Hitler: este nombre y este titulo han sido durante mucho tiempo punto de referencia obligado para todos aquellos que se dedican a estudiar el cine como un arte del siglo xx. En su libro, Kracauer aborda el periodo mas rico y espectacular del cine aleman y, por extension, uno de los mas importantes del cine mundial: el que va de 1919, ano de la aparicion de El gabinete del Dr. Caligari, a 1933, ano de la subida al poder de Adolf Hitler. Es el periodo del expresionismo, de la formacion de un lenguaje, de la consolidacion de un arte que Kracauer analiza desde un punto de vista nuevo: el que le ofrecen los utiles teoricos del marxismo y el psicoanalisis. Historiador, teorico y filosofo, Kracauer fue critico de cine durante los anos 1919-1933, lo que le permitio vivir directamente el desarrollo del arte cinematografico en relacion a la evolucion de una cultura y una sociedad especificas, las de la Alemania de la Republica de Weimar. Sus trabajos sobre la propaganda nazi en el cine aleman, realizados en Estados Unidos, donde encontro refugio al consolidarse el poder hitleriano, le condujeron a buscar los antecedentes filmicos del nazismo en los filmes realizados durante los anos veinte. De ahi surgio el impresionante trabajo que ahora se presenta en Espana.

Author : David Robinson
Publisher : British Film Institute
ISBN 13 : 9781844576494
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari written by David Robinson and published by British Film Institute. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its jagged, stylised sets, menacing shadows and themes of murder, madness and delirium, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) remains the source and essence of German Expressionist cinema. Fusing carnival spectacle with the paranoia of the psychological thriller, it centres on the haunting, sexually ambivalent presence of Conrad Veidt as Cesare – the somnambulist exploited as an instrument by the sinister Dr. Caligari. David Robinson challenges long accepted versions of the history and reception of Caligari and redefines its relationship to the larger phenomenon of Expressionist art. His reassessment of the relative contributions of director, designers and writers becomes a fascinating detective story, as he investigates the status and significance of the single surviving copy of the original script, which came to light only in the late 1980s when almost all those involved in the production were dead. This second edition features a new introduction that considers the place of German Expressionist cinema within the European revival of Gothic at the turn of the twentieth century, and original cover artwork by Ben Goodman.