A culture of light : cinema and technology in 1920s Germany /
In Frances Guerin's history of German silent cinema of the 1920s, the innovative use of light is the pivot around which a new conception of a national cinema, and a national culture emerges. Guerin depicts a nocturnal Germany suffused with light - electric billboards, storefronts, police search...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2005]
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| Summary: | In Frances Guerin's history of German silent cinema of the 1920s, the innovative use of light is the pivot around which a new conception of a national cinema, and a national culture emerges. Guerin depicts a nocturnal Germany suffused with light - electric billboards, storefronts, police searchlights - and shows how this element of the mise-en-scene came to reflect both the opportunities and the anxieties surrounding modernity and democracy. Guerin's interpretations center on use of light in films such as Schatten (1923), Variete (1925), Metropolis (1926), and Der Golem (1920). In these films we see how light is the substance of image composition, the structuring device of the narrative, and the central thematic concern. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxiv, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-305) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0816642850 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780816642854 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0816642869 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780816642861 (pbk. : alk. paper) |