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From Caligari To Hitler
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 Benjamins and Theodor Adornos intellectual circle - broke new ground in exploring the connections between film aesthetics the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauers pioneering book which examines German history from 1921 to 1933 in light of such movies as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" "M" "Metropolis" and "The Blue Angel" has never gone out of print.Now over half a century after its first appearance this beautifully
designed and entirely new edition reintroduces Kracauer for the twenty-first century. Film scholar Leonardo Quaresima places Kracauer in context in a critical introduction and updates the book further with a new bibliography index and list of inaccuracies that crept into the first edition. This volume is a must-have for the film historian film theorist or cinema enthusiast. In "From Caligari to Hitler" Siegfried Kracauer - the German-born writer and film critic who shared many ideas and interests with his friend Walter Benjamin - made a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as a popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation.In films of the 1920s such as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" "M" "Metropolis"
and "The Blue Angel" he traced recurring visual and narrative tropes that expressed he argued a fear of chaos and a desire for order even at the price of authoritarian rule. The book has become an undisputed classic of film historiography laying the foundations for the serious study of film. In "From Caligari to Hitler" Siegfried Kracauer made a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as a popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. In films of the 1920s he traced recurring visual and narrative tropes that expressed he argued a fear of chaos and a desire for order even at the price of authoritarian rule.The book has become an undisputed classic of film historiography laying the foundations for the serious study of
film. Kracauer was an important film critic in Weimar Germany. A Jew he escaped the rise of Nazism fleeing to Paris in 1933. Later in anguish after Benjamins suicide he made his way to New York where he remained until his death in 1966.He wrote From Caligari to Hitler while working as a "special assistant" to the curator of the Museum of Modern Arts film division. He was also on the editorial board of "Bollingen Series". Despite many critiques of its attempt to link movies to historical outcomes "From Caligari to Hitler" remains Kracauers best-known and most influential book and a seminal work in the study of film. Princeton published a revised edition of his "Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality" in 1997."
designed and entirely new edition reintroduces Kracauer for the twenty-first century. Film scholar Leonardo Quaresima places Kracauer in context in a critical introduction and updates the book further with a new bibliography index and list of inaccuracies that crept into the first edition. This volume is a must-have for the film historian film theorist or cinema enthusiast. In "From Caligari to Hitler" Siegfried Kracauer - the German-born writer and film critic who shared many ideas and interests with his friend Walter Benjamin - made a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as a popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation.In films of the 1920s such as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" "M" "Metropolis"
and "The Blue Angel" he traced recurring visual and narrative tropes that expressed he argued a fear of chaos and a desire for order even at the price of authoritarian rule. The book has become an undisputed classic of film historiography laying the foundations for the serious study of film. In "From Caligari to Hitler" Siegfried Kracauer made a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as a popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. In films of the 1920s he traced recurring visual and narrative tropes that expressed he argued a fear of chaos and a desire for order even at the price of authoritarian rule.The book has become an undisputed classic of film historiography laying the foundations for the serious study of
film. Kracauer was an important film critic in Weimar Germany. A Jew he escaped the rise of Nazism fleeing to Paris in 1933. Later in anguish after Benjamins suicide he made his way to New York where he remained until his death in 1966.He wrote From Caligari to Hitler while working as a "special assistant" to the curator of the Museum of Modern Arts film division. He was also on the editorial board of "Bollingen Series". Despite many critiques of its attempt to link movies to historical outcomes "From Caligari to Hitler" remains Kracauers best-known and most influential book and a seminal work in the study of film. Princeton published a revised edition of his "Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality" in 1997."
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