Homo cinematicus : science, motion pictures, and the making of modern Germany /

In the early decades of the twentieth century, two intertwined changes began to shape the direction of German society. The baptism of the German film industry took place amid post-World War I conditions of political and social breakdown, and the cultural vacuum left by collapsing institutions was pa...

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Main Author: Killen, Andreas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Series:Intellectual history of the modern age.
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