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A Second Life : German Cinema's First Decades

Part of the Film Culture in Transition series
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German cinema is best known for its art cinema and its long line of outstanding individual directors.

The double spotlight on these two subject has only deepened the obscurity surrounding the popular cinema.

A Second Life performs a kind of archaeology on a period largely overlooked: the first two decades of German cinema.

This collection of essays by established authors refocuses the terms of a debate that will develop in the years to come concerning the historical and cultural significance of popular cinema in Wilhelmine Germany.

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Amsterdam University Press
9053561722 / 9789053561720
Paperback
01/01/1996
Netherlands
English
352 pages : illustrations (black and white)
25 cm
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