The Uncanny Gaze: The Drama of Early German Cinema

Heide Schl?pmann's classic study of early German cinema was published in German as Unheimlichkeit des Blicks: Das Drama des Fr?hen deutschen Kinos in 1990. This translation makes available for the first time in English her feminist examination of German cinema and Germany in the sociopolitical context of Wilhelmine society. By examining then-unknown pre-World War I narrative films, this study paints a picture of the conflicted early years of the German cinema. During this period cinema and ...