This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesserâs intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades.
Metropolis is a monumental work. On its release in 1925, after sixteen months'. filming, it was Germany's most expensive feature film, a canvas for director. Fritz Lang's increasingly extravagant ambitions. Lang, inspired by the skyline of....
Has European cinema, in the age of globalization, lost contact not only with. the world at large, but with its own audiences? Between the thriving. festival circuit and the obligatory late-night television slot, is there. still a public or a public sphere...
German cinema of the 1920s is still regarded as one of the âgolden agesâ of world cinema. Films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dr Mabuse the Gambler, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Pandoraâs Box and The...