The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt by Lotte H. Eisner

The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt

Lotte H. Eisner

360 pages first pub 1952 (editions)

nonfiction art informative sad slow-paced

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The Golden Age of German cinema began at the end of the First World War and ended shortly after the coming of sound. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari onwards the principal films of this period were characterized by two influences: literary Express...

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