Kate Taylor of Berghahn Books has asked us to publicise this:
Members of the wigs-forum discussion board may be interested in the
following
newly published title:
BEYOND CALIGARI: The Films of Robert Wiene
Uli Jung and Walter Schatzberg
While The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic,
its
director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene's
oeuvre,
however exhibits a surprising versatilty and quality, featuring
Raskolnikov,
an expressionist adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel, INRI, a monumental
Bible
epic, Orlac's Hands, a psychological thriller, and Der Rosenkavalier, an
ambitious opera film. His last film, Ultimatum (1938), is a vehement
warning
of the approaching war, which remains relevant today. With painstaking
research of the major European film archives, the author's detailed
portrait
reveals a career far more differentiated than hitherto acknowledged.
Caligari - though rated the second most important film in German film
history
in a recent critic's and scholar's poll - was a landmark rather than a
culmination in a career that successfully oscillated between artistic
and
commercial.
Through the provocative and prolific career of Robert Wiene, a wider,
more
dynamic view of fantasy production in the Weimar Republic is revealed,
enabling the reader to better appreciate the complex shapes of Weimar
cinema,
its inimitable blend of modernism and mass culture, of avant-garde
enterprise, and generic production.
Uli Jung is a film historian who received his training at the RWTH
Aachen,
Clark University, Worcester, and Trier University. He has been working
as a
freelance researcher for the Cinémathèque Municipale de Luxembourg and
co-edited its series Filmgeschichte international. Walter Schatzberg is
a
Professor of German and adjunct professor of screen studies at Clark
University. His research interests include the history of German-Jewish
culture and German film history.
If you would like any further information, please contact:
Berghahn Books, 3 Newtec Place, Magdalen Road, Oxford, OX4 1RE
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Berghahn Books, 55 John Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10038, USA
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Susan Beardmore
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