Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 1996. 352 pages. Language:
English.
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.
German Cinema 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 conceing the
historical and cultural significance of popular cinema in
Wilhelmine Germany.
Elsaesser Thomas, Wedel Michael (editors). A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades
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