Historical Turns
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Historical Turns

Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism

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Historical Turns

Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism

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Historical Turns reassesses Weimar cinema in light of the "crisis of historicism" widely diagnosed by German philosophers in the early twentieth century. Through bold new analyses of five legendary works of German silent cinema— The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Destiny, Rhythm 21, The Holy Mountain, and Metropolis —Nicholas Baer argues that films of the Weimar Republic lent vivid expression to the crisis of historical thinking. With their experiments in cinematic form and style, these modernist films revealed the capacity of the medium to engage with fundamental questions about the philosophy of history. Reconstructing the debates over historicism that unfolded during the initial decades of moving-image culture, Historical Turns proposes a more reflexive mode of historiography and expands the field of film and media philosophy. The book excavates a rich archive of ideas that illuminate our own moment of rapid media transformation and political, economic, and environmental crises around the globe.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9780520398832
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Historical Turns
  8. 2. Things As They Could Have Happened: Siegfried Kracauer and the Historical Film
  9. 3. Relativist Perspectivism: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  10. 4. Metaphysics of Death: Destiny
  11. 5. The Nonsimultaneity of the Simultaneous: Rhythm 21
  12. 6. Natural History: The Holy Mountain
  13. Epilogue. The Weimar Analogy: Metropolis and the Global Present
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index