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In recent decades, special effects have become a major new area of research in cinema studies. For the most part, they have been examined as spectacles or practical tools. In contrast, Special Effects and German Silent Film, foregrounds their function as an expressive device and their pivotal role in cinema's emergence as a full-fledged art. Special effects not only shaped the look of iconic films like Nosferatu (1922) or Metropolis (1927), but they are central to a comprehensive understanding of German silent film culture writ large. This book examines special effects as the embodiment of a 'techno-romantic' paradigm that seeks to harness technology-the epitome of modern materialism-as a means for accessing a spiritual realm. Employed to visualize ideas and emotions in a medium-specific way, special effects thus paved the way for film art.

Silent films --- Cinematography --- History and criticism. --- Special effects --- History. --- special effects, German cinema, silent cinema, film style, technology.

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The Decline of Sentiment seeks to characterize the radical shifts in taste that transformed American film in the jazz age. Based upon extensive reading of trade papers and the popular press of the day, Lea Jacobs documents the films and film genres that were considered old-fashioned, as well as those dubbed innovative and up-to-date, and looks closely at the works of filmmakers such as Erich von Stroheim, Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch, and Monta Bell, among many others. Her analysis-focusing on the influence of literary naturalism on the cinema, the emergence of sophisticated comedy, and the progressive alteration of the male adventure story and the seduction plot-is a comprehensive account of the modernization of classical Hollywood film style and narrative form.

Melodrama in motion pictures. --- Silent films --- Motion pictures --- Moving pictures, Silent --- Silent motion pictures --- History. --- History and criticism. --- 20th century american film. --- american cinema. --- american film. --- charlie chaplin. --- comedy. --- erich von stroheim. --- ernst lubitsch. --- film genres. --- film history. --- film studies. --- film style. --- film. --- filmmakers. --- history. --- hollywood. --- jazz age. --- literary naturalism. --- male adventure story. --- modernization of classical hollywood. --- monta bell. --- movie history. --- movie studies. --- movies. --- narrative form. --- romantic drama. --- seduction plot. --- sentimental art. --- sentimental films. --- sophisticated film. --- trade papers.

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Patrice Petro challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in melodramatic films and in popular illustrated magazines, she shows how Weimar Germany had a commercially viable female audience, fascinated with looking at images that called traditional representations of gender into question. Interdisciplinary in her approach, Petro interweaves archival research with recent theoretical debates to offer not merely another view of the Weimar cinema but also another way of looking at Weimar film culture. Women's modernity, she suggests, was not the same as men's modernism, and the image of the city street in film and photojournalism reveals how women responded differently from men to the political, economic, and psychic upheaval of their times.

Frau. --- Motiv (Literatur) --- Motiv (Kunst) --- Geschichte. --- Film. --- Frau --- Film --- Liebesfilm --- Zuschauer --- Weimarer Republik --- Stummfilm --- Deutschland. --- Deutschland --- Anna Boleyn. --- Baudelaire, Charles. --- Being and Time. --- Berlin. --- Buci-Glucksmann, Christine. --- Communist Party. --- Derrida, Jacques. --- Elsaesser, Thomas. --- Evans, Richard J. --- Freud, Sigmund. --- Geschlecht in Fesseln. --- Grossmann, Atina. --- Hansen, Miriam. --- Heidegger, Martin. --- Hollywood cinema. --- Irigaray, Luce. --- Jardine, Alice. --- Johnston, Claire. --- Kammerspielfilm. --- Kerbs, Diethart. --- Koonz, Claudia. --- Lamprecht, Gerhard. --- Lang, Fritz. --- Letzte Mann, Der. --- Luxemberg, Rosa. --- Mellencamp, Patricia. --- Metropolis. --- Munson, Anthony. --- Nazi cinema. --- Nolde, Emil. --- Oedipal narrative. --- Prometheus. --- Quataert, Jean. --- Querschnitt, Der. --- Ruttmann, Walter. --- Schönlank, Bruno. --- androgyny: female. --- anti-Semitism. --- censorship, film. --- consumerism. --- crisis: historical. --- documentary realism. --- film style. --- homophobia. --- hysteria. --- imperial Germany. --- masquerade. --- mass culture. --- modernism. --- petite-bourgeoisie. --- photoessay. --- press archives. --- rationalization. --- Alemania --- Ashkenaz --- BRD --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Deguo --- 德国 --- Deutsches Reich --- Doitsu --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- FRN --- Gėrman --- German Uls --- Герман Улс --- Germania --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Germanyah --- Gjermani --- Grossdeutsches Reich --- Jirmānīya --- KhBNGU --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Nimechchyna --- Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana --- República de Alemania --- República Federal de Alemania --- Republika Federal Alemmana --- Vācijā --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Weimar Republic --- ХБНГУ --- Германия --- جرمانيا --- ドイツ --- ドイツ連邦共和国 --- ドイツ レンポウ キョウワコク --- Germany (East) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (West) --- Holy Roman Empire --- Analyse cinematographique --- Feminisme et le cinema --- Femmes et le cinema --- Films musicaux --- Rapports sociaux entre sexes dans les films --- Stummfilme --- 1918-1933 --- Betrachter --- Publikum --- Zuschauerin --- Erwachsene Frau --- Weib --- Weibliche Erwachsene --- Frauen --- Erwachsener --- Weiblichkeit --- Deutsche Länder --- Germany --- Heiliges Römisches Reich --- Rheinbund --- Deutscher Bund --- Norddeutscher Bund --- Republic of Germany --- Allemagne --- Ǧumhūrīyat Almāniyā al-Ittiḥādīya --- Niemcy --- République Fédérale d'Allemagne --- Repubblica Federale di Germania --- Germanija --- Federativnaja Respublika Germanija --- FRG --- Deyizhi-Lianbang-Gongheguo --- Deutsche --- Deutsches Sprachgebiet --- 03.10.1990 --- -Anna Boleyn.