The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy

New essays re-evaluating Weimar cinema from a broadened, up-to-date perspective.

Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But in recent decades, such reductive assessments have been challenged by developments in film theory and archival research that highlight the tremendou...