German essays on film - McCormick, Richard W. 1951-; Guenther-Pal, Alison (New York, N.Y. The Continum International Publishing Group Inc, 2004)
Theater of the little people / Alfred Döblin -- Art at the cinema / Herbert Tannenbaum -- Abyss not to be bridged / Malwine Rennert -- Thoughts on an aesthetics of cinema / Georg Lukács -- Cinema and the desire to watch / Walter Serner -- Film and I / Hanns Heinz Ewers -- War films / Malwine Rennert -- from On the sociology of the cinema / Emilie Altenloh -- Expressionist film / Herbert Ihering -- American cinema / Claire Goll -- Substitute for dreams / Hugo Von Hofmannsthal -- Bankruptcy of German film / Carl Einstein -- Artistic compostition of the film drama / Fritz Lang -- Ideal picture needs no titles : by its very nature the art of the screen should tell a complete story pictorially / F.W. Murnau -- from The visible human / Béla Balázs -- Little shopgirls go to the movies / Siegfried Kracauer -- from The three penny trial : a sociological experiment / Bertolt Brecht -- from Film / Rudolf Arnheim -- Dr. Goebbel's speech at the Kaiserhof on March 28, 1933 / Joseph Goebbels -- May the strength and beauty of youth have found cinematic form / Leni Riefenstahl -- History and film / Veit Harlan -- Formative power of film / Fritz Hippler -- Gratitude toward the theater / Helmut Käutner -- Culture industry : enlightenment as mass deception / Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno -- Introduction to From Caligari to Hitler : a psychological history of German film / Siegfried Kracauer -- Introduction to The Haunted Screen : expressionism in the German cinema and the influence of Max Reinhardt / Lotte H. Eisner -- Letter to the Central Military Commander of the Soviet Occupation Zone / Wolfgang Staudte -- Every audience, as everybody knows, has the films it deserves / Gunter Groll, Helmut Käutner, Walter Talmon-Gros -- Oberhausen Manifesto -- What do the "Oberhauseners" want? / Alexander Kluge -- Reflection : befouling our own nest? / Wolfgang Staudte -- That's entertainment : Hitler / Wim Wenders -- Feminism and film / Helke Sander -- On the possiblilities of socialist film art : reactions to Mama, Im Alive / Konrad Wolf -- from The third generation / Rainer Werner Fassbinder -- Manifesto of the Women Film Workers -- Women's films are searches for traces / Jutta Brückner -- DEFA : a personal view / Wolfgang Kohlhaase -- On German postwar film / Enno Patalas -- Transparencies on film / Theodor W. Adorno -- Ex-changing the gaze : re-visioning feminist film theory / Gertrud Koch -- Melodrama and social drama in the early German cinema / Heide Schlüpmann -- Indivisible legacy of Nazi cinema / Karsten Witte.
"The German Library is published in cooperation with Deutsches Haus, New York University."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-318)
Keywords: Motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Germany