Expressionism and Film, originally published in German in 1926, is not only a classic of film history, but also an important work from the early phase of modern media history. Written with analytical brilliance and historical vision by a well-known contemporary of the expressionist movement, it captures Expressionism at the time of its impending conclusion—as an intersection of world view, resoluteness of form, and medial transition. Though one of the most frequently-cited works of Weimar culture, Kurtz's groundbreaking work, which is on a par with Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler and Lotte Eisner's The Haunted Screen, has never been published in English. Its relevance and historical contexts are analyzed in a concise afterword by the Swiss scholars Christian Kiening and Ulrich Johannes Beil.
- ISBN10 0861967186
- ISBN13 9780861967186
- Publish Date 21 March 2016
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher John Libbey & Co
- Imprint John Libbey Publishing Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 280
- Language English