Montage as Perceptual Experience: Berlin Alexanderplatz from D blin to Fassbinder

The first book to treat both Döblin's novel and the film adaptations of it, which it does while also articulating theories of literary and film montage.



Alfred Döblin's novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and its film adaptations by Jutzi and Fassbinder are canonical works of literature and cinema, and yet there is no monograph that treats all three. This omission is even more striking since Döblin's novel is seen as the most famous example of literary appropriation of film montage aesthetics. Mario...