From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of German Cinema
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of German Cinema
19.99 €
One of the main monographs on German cinema and the most famous book by Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) was written by him in exile and published in the USA in 1947. The author, a sociologist and theorist of cinema and culture, analyzes the internal attitudes and patterns of German society, objects of collective repression, reflected in the classic films of the pre-Hitler era. For Kracauer, cinema is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon; he wrote about its various aspects (Weimar Essays, Film Theory, etc.). In this book, cinema is, first and foremost, a manifestation of mass culture, an a priori collective art that, being the fruit of joint efforts, satisfies and simultaneously provokes the hidden desires of a wide audience.
The Soviet edition of From Caligari to Hitler in 1977 was incomplete. In addition to the appendix "Propaganda and Nazi War Film", the text was partially stripped of the assessment of the political situation in Germany and Russia, individual comments on Soviet films and filmmakers, and a number of details from the history of the Weimar Republic. The present edition fills these gaps and also returns the authorship to the translator of the text into Russian (whose name was not indicated in the Soviet edition) - Gennady Grigoryevich Shmakov, a well-known translator, ballet critic and cinephile.
The Soviet edition of From Caligari to Hitler in 1977 was incomplete. In addition to the appendix "Propaganda and Nazi War Film", the text was partially stripped of the assessment of the political situation in Germany and Russia, individual comments on Soviet films and filmmakers, and a number of details from the history of the Weimar Republic. The present edition fills these gaps and also returns the authorship to the translator of the text into Russian (whose name was not indicated in the Soviet edition) - Gennady Grigoryevich Shmakov, a well-known translator, ballet critic and cinephile.
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