Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War

Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War
ISBN-10
0691008507
ISBN-13
9780691008509
Category
Art
Pages
328
Language
English
Published
2011-10-02
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Author
Anton Kaes

Description

'Shell Shock Cinema' shows how classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I & the trauma of Germany's humiliating defeat. Anton Kaes argues that even films which do not depict war reveal a wounded nation in post-traumatic shock.

Other editions

Similar books