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Author
Series
Publisher
Princeton university press
Pub. Date
1947
Physical Desc
xii, 361 p. plates. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966) was a film critic and independent sociologist and theorist. He is the author of The Mass Ornament and Theory of Film (Princeton). Leonardo Quaresima is professor of film history and criticism and director of cinema studies at the University of Udine.
An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism
First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an...
Author
Series
Short cuts volume 40
Publisher
Wallflower Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
132 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
4) Nosferatu
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (64 min.) : silent, b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Count Orlock (Nosferatu, the vampire) leaves his castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats and with sinister plans for the young couple who are to be his first victims.
5) Fitzcarraldo
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
1999], c1981
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Story of a man obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town.
Series
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 177 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The tale of a composer who sells his soul to Satan to ensure his own creativity, but finds he cannot keep to his bargain to refrain from all close human relationships and his closest friends die as a result.
Series
Criterion collection volume 198
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
8) Othello
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"National Film Museum, Inc."
"Cavernous chambers and stony battlements cast shadows of impending doom upon Othello and Desdemona as the mephistophelian Iago dances about them, methodically destroying their happiness and steering them toward their bitter fate with impish delight."--Container.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (324 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young engineer goes to visit his cousin at a tubercular sanatorium in the Swiss Alps intending to stay three weeks, but ends by staying on for seven years to observe the disturbed personnel and patients. The unfolding exchanges between the protagonists are meant to present a microcosm of the society of pre-World War I Europe in this dramatization based on a Nobel Prize-winning novel.
10) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Language
Deutsch
Description
When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (188 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
At the heart of this film is the question of whether Leni Riefenstahl was a Nazi, as her detractors claim, or whether she was the victim of society-- a naive, young woman who made Triumph des Willens on assignment, and simply did a very good job. This film does not judge, and Riefenstahl (a fiesty 90 during production) is genuine in her protest. Or has the passage of 50-plus years simply rewritten history in her mind? Viewers must judge for themselves....
12) Mustang
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Türkçe
Description
It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Educational ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. Millions all across occupied Europe saw his films, the most perfidious of which was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film *Jew Süss*—required viewing for all SS members. An unrepentant and blindly obsessive craftsman, no figure—save for Leni Riefenstahl—is as closely associated with the cinema of the Holocaust years as that of Joseph Goebbels'...
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