Selected Bibliography on Early German Film
Abel, Richard and Giorgio Bertellini and Rob King, eds. Early Cinema and the "National." New
Barnet, Herts: John Libbey Publishing, 2008.
Barlow, John D. German Expressionist Film. Boston: Twayne, 1982.
Brockmann, Stephen. A Critical History of German Film. Rochester: Camden House, 2010.
Budd, Mike, ed. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Texts, Contexts, Histories. New Brunswick:
Rutgers University Press, 1990.
Budd, Mike. “The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari: Production, Reception, History.” In Close
Viewings, ed. P. Lehman, 333-352. [xxx], 1990.
Calhoon, Kenneth. Peripheral Visions. The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema. Detroit: Wayne
State UP, 2001.
Coates, Paul. The Gorgon’s Gaze: German Cinema, Expressionism and the Image of Horror.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.
Diederichs, Helmut H. Anfänge deutscher Filmkritik. Stuttgart: Robert Fischer & Uwe
Wiedleroither, 1986.
Eisner, Lotte H. The Haunted Screen. Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of
Max Reinhardt. Berkeley, U of CA P, 1973.
Eisner, Lotte. Murnau. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1973.
Elsaesser, Thomas. Weimar Cinema and After. Germany's Historical Imagery. New York:
Routledge, 2000.
Elsaesser, Thomas and Michael Wedel, eds. The BFI Companion to German Cinema.
London : BFI Pub., 1999
Elsaesser, Thomas. Companion to German Cinema. London: Cassel, 1997.
Elsaesser, Thomas. A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades. Amsterdam: Amsterdam
University Press, 1996.
Elsaesser, Thomas. “Film History and Visual Pleasure: Weimar History.” Cinema Histories,
Cinema Practices. Edited by Patricia Mellencamp and Philip Rosen. Los Angeles: American Film Institute, 1984.
Elsaesser, Thomas. “Film History and Visual Pleasure” and “Lulu and the Meter Man: Louise
Brooks, Pabst, and Pandora’s Box.” Screen 24:4-5 (1983): 4-36.
Friedan, Sandra, et. al., eds. Gender and German Cinema. Feminist Interventions. 2 vols.
Providence/Oxford: Berg, 1993.
Gleber, Anke. The Art of Taking a Walk. Flanerie, Literature and Film in Weimar Culture.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999. (see Part 4)
Gunning, Tom. The Films of Fritz Lang. Allegories of Vision and Modernity. London: British
Film Institute, 2000.
Hake, Sabine. German National Cinema. London & New York: Routedge, 2002.
Hake, Sabine. The Cinema’s Third Machine: Writing on Film in Germany 1907-1933. Lincoln:
U of Nebraska P, 1993.
Hake, Sabine. Passions And Deceptions: The Early Films Of Ernst Lubitsch. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1992.
Halle, Randall and Margaret McCarthy, eds. Light Motives: German Popular Film in
Perspective. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.
Isenberg, Noah, ed. Weimar Cinema: an Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era. New
York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Jacobsen, Wolfgang, Anton Kaes and Hans Helmut Prinzler, eds. Geschichte des deutschen
Films. Stuttgart, Weimar: J.B. Metzler, 1993.
Jung, Uli and Walter Schatzberg. Beyond Caligari. The Films of Robert Wiene. New York and
Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999.
Kaes, Anton. “The Expressionist Vision in Theater and Cinema.” In Expressionism
Reconsidered, eds. G.B.Pickar and K.Webb. [xxx], 1979.
Kaes, Anton: “German Cultural History and the Study of Film. New German Critique 65
(1995): 47-58.
Kaes, Anton, ed., Kino-Debatte, Texte zum Verhältnis von Literatur und Film 1909-1929,
München, 1978.
Kaes, Anton. Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2009.
Kaes, Anton, Martin Jay and Edward Dimendberg, eds. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook.
Berkeley: U of California Press, 1994.
Kasten, Jürgen. Der expressionistische Film. Abgefilmtes Theater oder avantgardistisches
Erzählkino? Eine stil-, produktions- und rezeptionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung. Münster: [xxx], 1990.
Kessler, Frank and Nanna Verhoeff, eds. Networks of Entertainment: Early Film Distribution
1895-1915. New Barnet, Herts: John Libbey Publishing, 2007
Kittler, Friedrich. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and
Michael Wutz. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.
Kracauer, Siegfried. From Caligari to Hitler. A Psychological History of German Film.
Princeton, Princeton U Press, 1947.
Kreimeier, Klaus. Die UFA Story. Geschichte eines Filmkonzerns. München: Heyne, 1992.
Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: a History of Germany’s Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945.
Translated by Robert and Rita Kimber. New York: Hill & Wang, 1996.
Kreimeier, Klaus and Annemone Ligensa, eds. Film 1900 – Technology, Perception, Culture.
New Barnet, Herts: John Libbey Publishing, 2009.
Loiperdinger, Martin and Uli Jung, eds. Importing Asta Nielsen: The International Film Star in
the Making, 1910-1914. KINtop Studies in Early Cinema 2. Barnet, Herts: John Libbey Publishing, 2013.
Mayne, Judith. “Dracula in the Twilight: Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) .” In German Film and
Literature. Adaptations and Transformations. Ed. Eric Rentschler. New York: Meuthen, 1986. 25-38.
Michaels, Lloyd. “Nosferatu, or the Phantom of the Cinema.” In Play It Again, Sam. Retakes on
Remakes. Ed. Andrew Horton and Stuart Y. McDougal. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. 238-249.
Minden, Michael and Holger Bachmann, eds. Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. Cinematic Visions of
Technology and Fear. Rochester: Camden House, 2000.
Müller, Corinna. Frühe deutsche Kinematographie. Formale, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle
Entwicklungen. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1994.
Murphy, R. J. “Carnival Desire and the Sideshow of Fantasy.” The Germanic Review, 66
(1991): 48-56.
Murray, Bruce. Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic: From Caligari to Kuhle
Wampe. Austin: U of Texas P, 1990.
New German Critique. Important issues on German film include:
NGC #24-25 Special Double Issue on New German Cinema
NGC #34 Special Section on Film
NGC #40 Special Issue on Weimar Film Theory
NGC #51 Special Issue on Weimar Mass Culture
NGC #60 Special Issue on German Film History
NGC #120 Special Issue on German Film: From Weimar Cinema to Post-Millennial Urban Culture
NGC #122 Special Issue, Miriam Hansen: Cinema, Experience, and the Public Sphere
Oksiloff, Assenka. Picturing the Primitive. Visual Culture, Ethnography, and Early German
Cinema. New York: Palgrave, 2001
Petro, Patrice. Joyless Streets. Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany.
Princeton: Princeton U Press, 1989.
Prawer, S.S. Caligari’s Children: The Film as Tale of Terror. New York: Oxford UP, 1980.
Prinzler, Hans Helmut. Chronik des deutschen Films 1895-1994. Stuttgart, Weimar: J.B.
Metzler, 1995.
Quaresima, Leonardo. “ ‘Dichter, heraus!’ The Autorenfilm and German Cinema of the 1910’s.”
Griffithiana 38-39 (1990): 101-120.
Rickels, Laurence. “The Demonization of the Home Front: War Neurosis and Weimar Cinema.”
In Dancing on the Volcano. Essays on the Culture of the Weimar Republic. Ed. Thomas W. Kniesche and Stephen Brockmann. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1994. 181-194.
Robinson, David. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. London: British Film Institute, 1997.
Rogowski, Christian, ed. The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic
Legacy. Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2010.
Salt, B. “From Caligari to Who?” Sight and Sound 48 (1979): 119-123.
Schlüpemann, Heidi. Unheimlichkeit des Blicks. Das Drama des frühen deutschen Kinos. Basel,
Frankfurt: Stroemfeld/Roter Stern, 1990.
Schlüpemann, Heidi. The Uncanny Gaze. The Drama of Early German Cinema. Translated by
Inga Pollmann. Urbana, Chicago: U of IL Press, 2010.
Scheunemann, Dietrich, ed. Expressionist Film. New Perspectives. Rochester: Camden House,
2003.
Schweinitz, Jörg, ed. Prolog vor dem Film. Nachdenken über ein neues Medium 1909-1914.
Leipzig: Reclam, 1992.
Shepherd, Jim. Nosferatu. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Silbermann, Marc. German Cinema. Texts in Context. Detroit: Wayne State U Press, 1995.
Unrau, Rona. “Eine Symphonie des Grauens or the Terror of Music: Murnau’s Nosferatu.”
Literature Film Quarterly. 24.3 (1996): 234-240.
Vogl-Bienek, Ludwig and Richard Crangle, eds. Screen Culture and the Social Question, 1880-
1914. KINtop Studies in Early Cinema 3. Barnet, Herts: John Libbey Publishing, 2014.
Von Ankum, Katharina, ed. Women in the Metropolis. Gender and Modernity in Weimar
Culture. Berkeley: U of California P, 1997.
Wager, Jans B. Dangerous Dames. Women and Representation in the Weimar Street Film and
Film Noir. Athens: Ohio UP, 1999.
Ward, Janet. Weimar Surfaces. Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany. Berkeley: U of
California P, 2001.
Williams, Andrew. P. “The silent threat: A (re)viewing of the ‘sexual other’ in The Phantom of
the Opera and Nosferatu.” The Midwest Quarterly 38.1 (1996): 90-101.
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