Reproduces the diversity of perspectives and the intensity of controversies of early German film within the broad context of German social and political history
Sabine Hake is the Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Passions and Deceptions: The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch.
"Discourse about the cinema is ... its third machine: after the one that manufactures the film, and the one that consumes them, the one that vaunts them, that valorizes the product." Christian Metz "A major contribution to the fields of film and German studies. There is, in fact, no other study either in English or in German that addresses such a wide variety of discourses on cinema in Imperial and Weimar Germany, and no other study that attempts a broad historical analysis with such critical and theoretical acuity." Patrice Petro, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Smart and superbly researched." Choice
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