"This book covers Swedish film culture throughout the 1920s. The study is based on extensive research and takes all Swedish feature films produced in the 1920s into consideration, together with a large number of source materials that include fan and trade magazines, manuscripts,…
Alfred Hitchcock called the silent ""the purest form of cinema, "" and the ten silent films he directed between 1925 and 1929 reveal the young director's mature artistry. Hitchcock's silents have often been characterized as the work of a talented amateur, a young director practi…
"This work discovers Hitchcock's early skill through close readings of the films from The Pleasure Garden to the silent version of Blackmail, using shot-by-shot descriptions and interpretations. Each film's chapter includes technical information, a summary of the critical respon…
One of the most famous special-effects sequences in the history of cinema is the robot's anthropogenesis in Metropolis. The scene has become an emblem for the astonishing technical and aesthetic achievements of German filmmakers. Not only did special effects shape the look of ma…
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<i/> performs a kind of archaeology on a period largely ov…
A compelling study of how the medium of film came to shape our experience and thinking of the world and ourselves.
Väliaho offers a compelling study of how the medium of film came to shape our experience of the world and ourselves. By locating the moving image in new ways of seeing and saying, the book redefines the cinema as one of the most important anthropological processes of modernity.
A compelling study of how the medium of film came to shape our experience and thinking of the world and ourselves.
