Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) was a film critic and independent film historian and theorist. He is the author of The Mass Ornament and A Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality, edited by Miriam Bratu Hansen (Princeton). Leonardo Quaresima is Professor of Film History and Criticism and Director of Cinema Studies at the University of Udine, Italy.
"The thesis of this unusually interesting book is that the German
films of the twenties were filled with premonitions of the German
totalitarianism of the thirties."
*Nation*
"One of the great works of film history, this look at early German
cinema, first published in 1947, is still a must-have for cineastes
and scholars alike."---H.J. Kirchhoff, Toronto Globe and Mail
"The book is an invaluable guide to a golden period of
cinema."---Christopher Wood, The Times
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