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Caligari's children : the film as tale of terror / S. S. Prawer Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Call No: 735.2 PRAAuthor: Prawer, S. S. (Siegbert Salomon), 1925 Place: Oxford New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1980PhysDes: 307 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: HORROR FILMS ; HAMMER FILM PRODUCTIONS ; FISHER, TERENCE ; KARLOFF, BORIS ; LANG, FRITZ ; LEWTON ,VAL ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM ; FRANKENSTEIN (US, James Whale, 1931) ; KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) ; VAMPYR : DER TRAUM DES ALLEN GRAY (G/FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932) ; CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS (G, Robert Wiene, 1920) Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. [283]-292ISBN: 019217584X : ª6.95LON: 1491474
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Cinematography in the Weimar Republic : Lola Lola, dirty singles, and the men who shot them / Paul Matthew St. Pierre London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
Call No: 23(430)Author: St. Pierre, Paul Matthew Place: LondonPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University PressPhysDes: 274 p. ; illus. ; 24 cmSeries: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studiesSubject: CINEMATOGRAPHY ; GERMANY ; EXPRESSIONISM ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; WAGNER, FRITZ ARNO ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM ; LANG, FRITZ ; PABST, GEORG WILHELM ; RITTAU, GUNTHER ; DREYER, CARL TH. Summary: In film history, director-cinematographer collaborations were on a labor spectrum, with the model of the contracted camera operator in the silent era and that of the cinematographer in the sound era. But in Weimar era German filmmaking, 1919-33, a short period of intense artistic activity and political and economic instability, these models existed side by side due to the emergence of camera operators as independent visual artists and collaborators with directors.
Berlin in the 1920s was the chief site of the interdisciplinary avant-garde of the Modernist movement in the visual, literary, architectural, design, typographical, sartorial, and performance arts in Europe. The Weimar Revolution that arose in the aftermath of the November 1918 Armistice and that established the Weimar Republic informed and agitated all of the art movements, such as Expressionism, Dada, the Bauhaus, Minimalism, Objectivism, Verism, and Neue Sachlichkeit (“New Objectivity”). Among the avant-garde forms of these new stylistically and culturally negotiated arts, the cinema was foremost and since its inception had been a radical experimental practice in new visual technologies that proved instrumental in changing how human beings perceived movement, structure, perspective, light exposure, temporal duration, continuity, spatial orientation, human postural, facial, vocal, and gestural displays, and their own spectatorship, as well as conventions of storytelling like narrative, setting, theme, character, and structure. Whereas most of the arts mobilized into schools, movements, institutions, and other structures, cinema, a collaborative art, tended to organize around its ensembles of practitioners.
Historically, the silent film era, 1895-1927, is associated with auteurs, the precursors of François Truffaut and other filmmakers in the 1960s: actuality filmmakers and pioneers like R. W. Paul and Fred and Joe Evans in England, Auguste and Luis Lumière and Georges Méliès in France, and Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton in America, who, by managing all the compositional, executional, and editorial facets of film production—scripting, directing, acting, photographing, set, costume, and lighting design, editing, and marketing—imposed their personal vision or authorship on the film. The dichotomy of the auteur and the production ensemble established a production hierarchy in most filmmaking.
In formative German silent film, however, this hierarchy was less rank or class driven, because collaborative partnerships took precedence over single authorship. Whereas in silent film production in most countries the terms filmmaker and director were synonymous, in German silent film the plural term filmemacherin connoted both directors and cinematographers, along with the rest of the filmmaking crew. Thus, German silent filmmakers’ principle contribution to the new medium and art of film was less the representational iconographies of Expressionist, New Objective, and Naturalist styles than the executional practice of co-authorship and co-production, in distinctive cinematographer-director partnerships such as those of cinematographer Theodor Sparkuhl and director Ernst Lubitsch; Fritz Arno Wagner with F. W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, and G. W. Pabst; Rudolf Maté with Carl Theodor Dreyer; Guido Seeber with Lang and Pabst; and Carl Hoffmann with Lang and Murnau.
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Development of the film : an interpretive history / Alan Casty New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.
Call No: 70 CASAuthor: Casty, Alan Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Harcourt Brace JovanovichPubDate: 1973PhysDes: 425 p. ; 23 cmSubject: EDITING ; HISTORICAL FILMS ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY ; GENRES ; SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; BRECHT, BERTOLT ; BUNUEL, LUIS ; CAPRA, FRANK ; CARNE, MARCEL ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; CLAIR, RENE ; COOPER, GARY ; CURTIZ, MICHAEL ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; DE SICA, VITTORIO ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR ; DREYER, CARL TH. ; DUVIVIER, JULIEN ; Fellini, Federico ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; FORD, JOHN ; GARBO, GRETA ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; HUSTON, JOHN ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; KINGSLEY, STANLEY ; KAZAN, ELIA ; LANG, FRITZ ; Lean, David ; LEROY, MERVYN ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; MCCREA, JOEL ; MAMOULIAN, ROUBEN ; MARX BROTHERS ; MILESTONE, LEWIS ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM ; NEWMAN, PAUL ; PABST, GEORG WILHELM ; Pasolini, Pier Paolo ; Peckinpah, Sam ; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD ; REED, CAROL ; RENOIR, JEAN ; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO ; ROSSEN, ROBERT ; Stewart, James ; TOLAND, GREGG ; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS ; VIGO, JEAN ; VISCONTI, LUCHINO ; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF ; VON STROHEIM, ERICH ; WAYNE, JOHN ; WELLES, ORSON ; WELLMAN, WILLIAM ; WILDER, BILLY ; WISE, ROBERT ; WYLER, WILLIAM ; ZOLA, EMILE ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937) ; INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916) ; REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939) ; STRAW DOGS (UK, Sam Peckinpah, 1971) Summary: The development of the cinemictic styles and genres in films worldwide and the important professical within the film industry.ISBN: 0155176226
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F.W. Murnau : cinema of space in Sydney University Film Group Bulletin (June 1971) iss.54 p.16 - 18
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Film fables / Jacques Rancier ; translated by Emiliano Battista New York: Berg Publishers, 2006.
Call No: 63 RANAuthor: Rancier, Jacques ; Battista, Emiliano Source: FR/USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Berg PublishersPubDate: 2006PhysDes: viii, 196 pages ; 24 cmSubject: AESTHETICS ; ART AND THE CINEMA ; ART CINEMA ; AUTEUR THEORY ; CINEMATOGRAPHY ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; SYMBOLISM IN FILMS ; BRESSON, ROBERT ; DELEUZE, GILLES ; EPSTEIN, JEAN ; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M. ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; LANG, FRITZ ; MANN, ANTHONY ; MARKER, CHRIS ; MEDVEKIN, ALEXANDER ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM ; OZU YASUJIRO ; RAY, NICHOLAS ; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO ; VERTOV, DZIGA ; AU HASARD, BALTHAZAR (FR/SW, Robert Bresson, 1966) ; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ; CHINOISE, LA (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) ; FAUST (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Marnau, 1926) ; WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (US, Fritz Lang, 1955) Summary: "Film Fables traces the history of modern cinema, moving effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema and Marker's documentaries."Notes: Includes indexISBN: 9781845201685ID2: 291
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Hollywood destinies : European directors in America, 1922-1931 / Graham Petrie London Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
Call No: 802.25 PETAuthor: Petrie, Graham Place: London BostonPublisher: Routledge & Kegan PaulPubDate: 1985PhysDes: xii, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Cinema and societySubject: MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; STILLER, MAURITZ ; SJOSTROM, VICTOR ; CHRISTENSEN, BENJAMIN ; FEJOS, PAUL ; LENI, PAUL ; MAGNUSSON, CHARLES Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 249-251ISBN: 0710201613 : ª19.95 (est.)LON: 3711813
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Hollywood directors, 1914-1940 / [compiled by] Richard Koszarski New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Call No: 802.25(73) KOSAuthor: Koszarski, Richard Place: New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1976PhysDes: xx, 364 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: DIRECTORS. USA ; PORTER, EDWIN S. ; GUY-BLACHE, ALICE ; BLACKTON, J. STUART ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; HART, WILLIAM S. ; WEBER, LOIS ; SENNETT, MACK ; INCE, THOMAS HARPER ; INGRAM, REX ; NEILAN, MARSHALL ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; LLOYD, HAROLD ; Keaton, Buster ; DWAN, ALLAN ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; VON STROHEIM, ERICH ; LANGDON, HARRY ; CAPRA, FRANK ; FORD, JOHN ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM ; BORZAGE, FRANK ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; VIDOR, KING ; ROACH, HAL ; MAMOULIAN, ROUBEN ; DEMILLE, WILLIAM ; MILESTONE, LEWIS ; CUKOR, GEORGE ; VAN DYKE, W.S. ; HOWARD, WILLIAM K. ; TUTTLE, FRANK ; SCHOEDSACK, ERNEST B. ; GARNETT, TAY ; CROMWELL, JOHN ; OLCOTT, SIDNEY ; HORNE, JAMES W. ; FITZMAURICE, GEORGE ; PARK, IDA MAY ; TOURNEUR, MAURICE ; FLOREY, ROBERT ; MENZIES, WILLIAM CAMERON ; VORKAPICH, SLAVKO ; BRENNON, HERBERT ; CAREWE, EDWIN ; NIBLO, FRED ; GOULDING, EDMUND ; FEJOS, PAUL ; BELL, MONTA Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0195020855 : $13.95LON: 761206
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The material ghost : films and their medium / Gilberto Perez Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Call No: 62 PERAuthor: Perez, Gilberto, 1943 Place: BaltimorePublisher: Johns Hopkins University PressPubDate: 1998PhysDes: xi, 465 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: AESTHETICS ; CRITICISM ; ALPHAVILLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; AVVENTURA, L' (IT/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; BRECHT, BERTOLT ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; NAMA-YE NAZDIK (IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1990) ; COLLEGE (US, James W. Horne, 1927) ; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; FORD, JOHN ; FORTINI/CANI (IT, Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, 1976) ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; HUILLET, DANIELE ; KARINA, ANNA ; Keaton, Buster ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS ; LECONS D'HISTOIRE (IT, Jean-Marie Staub & Daniele Huillet, 1972) ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM ; NOSFERATU - EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922) ; PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE, UNE (FR, Jean Renoir, 1946 [prod. 1936]) ; RENOIR, JEAN ; STRAUB, JEAN-MARIE ; ZEMLJA (UR, Alexksandr Dovzenko, 1930) Summary: Summary: In The Material Ghost, Perez draws on his life-long love of the movies as well as his work as a film scholar to write an engaging study of films and filmmakers and the nature of the art form.Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-448) and indexesISBN: 0801856736 (alk. paper)LON: 21392968
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Murnau / by Lotte H. Eisner London: Secker and Warburg, 1973.
Call No: 81MUR EISAuthor: Eisner, Lotte H Place: LondonPublisher: Secker and WarburgPubDate: 1973PhysDes: 287 p. illus., facsims., ports. 22 cmSubject: MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM Notes: A rev. translation of the French work published in 1964 under title: F. W. Murnau; Bibliography: p. 280-283ISBN: 0436097001 043609701X (pbk)LON: 73178144; 404277
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MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM
Call No: PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION; PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILEPhysDes: Clippings; PublicitySubject: MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM
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Passport to Hollywood : Film immigrants : anthology / Don Whittemore, Philip Alan Cecchettini, and the Regents of the University of California New York: McGraw-Hill, c1976.
Call No: 802.25(73) WHIAuthor: Whittemore, Don ; Cecchettini, Philip Alan CorpAuthor: University of California, Berkeley; Film immigrantsPlace: New YorkPublisher: McGraw-HillPubDate: c1976PhysDes: ix, 558 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: DIRECTORS. USA ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; VON STROHEIM, ERICH ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; CURTIZ, MICHAEL ; SJOSTROM, VICTOR ; WHALE, JAMES ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM ; FEJOS, PAUL ; VORKAPICH, SLAVKO ; LANG, FRITZ ; PREMINGER, OTTO ; FORMAN, MILOS Notes: A book of readings for the Introduction to film course to accompany the PBS film series Film immigrants; Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 0070700532; 0070700524 : $10.00LON: 768655
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