About this title: A landmark, now classic, study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic, "From Caligari to Hitler" was first published by Princeton University Press in 1947. Siegfried Kracauer - a prominent German film critic and member of Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's intellectual circle - broke new ground in exploring the connections ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Noonday Press, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Base of spine, front cover & half title page show dampstaining, otherwise clean. Unmarked text. Excellent reading copy. 361 pp, b/w illus. Second Noonday Paperbound Edition, 1960. Includes as supplement (p. [273]-331) "Progaganda and the Nazi war film" which, with a few changes, is a reprint of the author's pamphlet of the same title issued in 1942 by the Museum of Modern Art Film Library. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xii, 361 pp., plates, biblio., index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Superficial droplet stain/front cover (barely visible). One of the greatest works of film criticism of all time, focusing on German cinema from Expressionism to the Nazi era, by the Marxist critic Kracauer, a contemporary of the Frankfurt School thinkers. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. 1947 Princeton University Press hard cover 1st edition-some wear to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) some staining to page edge-otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-enjoy. read more
Edition: Reprint Edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1966
Description: Impressively illustrated history. Description: 361 p. 21 cm. Subjects: Motion pictures-Germany-History. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned only. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. 1. pp. 361. read more
Edition: Reprint Edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1966
Description: Impressively illustrated history. Description: 361 p. 21 cm. Subjects: Motion pictures-Germany-History. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned only. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. read more
Binding: Hard
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Date Published: 1947
Description: VG/G. Small tears & chipping to edges of DJ. DJ enclosed in plastic protector. Pages clean, but beginning to yellow. Binding sound.; 361 pages. read more
Description: Good. B00005VZI5 1966 PRINTING. Pages are unmarked-We provide prompt shipping and delivery confirmations-All items are guaranteed. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Princeton university press, [Princeton, N.J. ]
Date Published: 1947
Description: Good. No dust jacket. xii, 361 p. plates. 24 cm. Includes Plates. Includes as supplement (p. [273]-331) "Propaganda and the Nazi war film" which, with a few changes, is a reprint of the author's pamphlet of the same title issued in 1942 by the Museum of modern art Film library. cf. p. [273] Bibliography: p. 333-346. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780691115191ISBN:0691115192
Description: Revised & expanded ed. 8vo, paperback. Good condition only. Cover once cleanly detached down front spine edge, now neatly reattached, no loosening; shallow vertical crease down pgs, not very noticeable when bk is opened; several pea-sized spots on cover, interior bright & clean, perfectly serviceable. 348 p., b&w illus. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780691115191ISBN:0691115192
Description: New. A study of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. It examines German history from 1921 to 1933 in light of such movies as "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari", "M", "Metropolis", and "The Blue Angel". It is suitable for the film historian, film theoris... read more
Description: New. "An undisputed classic of modern film historiography, Kracauer's "From Caligari to Hitler" had a major impact on the way we relate movies to history and society. Although Kracauer is not afraid of using such contested concepts as collective psycholog... read more
"Ok, this isnt a light read, but it's fascinating in how it explains the psychological state of Germans after WWI and how it led to WWII. It took me longer than most to finish this, but I was glad I did."
"a pretty fascinating look at the flow between art and culture. it's a little more of a "chicken and the egg" relationship than the book wants to admit - it basically takes the stance that germany's weimar cinema paved the psychological road for hitler's rise to power - but the bottom line is that it is one of the first serious discussions of films power over political and cultural zeitgeist. just because it's popular entertainment doesn't mean it won't influence the way we think, people."
"A super fascinating subject matter - where culture, (evil) politics, and cinema art all meet up. Siegfried Kracauer is very much like Walter Benjamin, in that he looks at popular culture and writes about it in a new light. Basically what this book is about is Germany from the 20's to the 30's. Kind of scary in its scope and how mass entertainment or art can be reflective of what is happening in the (that) world."
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