Taking the production history into account, Prawer ultimately foregrounds the cultural and aesthetic components of the film that combine to such powerful effect. This second edition features a new foreword by Brad Prager and original cover artwork by Matt Brand.
Containing the words of many of the best-known Lieder from Haydn to Hindemith, this book includes literal, line-by-line translations in English opposite the text, and a section of notes on the life and work of every composer and every poet represented.
Recognized as a significant work in the field of comparative literature in Britain, this book offers profound insights and analyses that contribute to the understanding of literary connections across cultures. It explores themes and narratives that transcend national boundaries, showcasing the interplay between different literary traditions. The author's scholarship and perspective provide a valuable resource for both students and enthusiasts of literature, making it a pivotal reference in the study of global literary discourse.
Werner Herzog's Phantom der Nacht (1979) is sometimes called a minor work, despite the film's towering central performance by Klaus Kinski. But in this book, we see Phantom der Nacht as one of the masterpieces of the New German Cinema, a film that exhibits all of Herzog's melancholy and pessimistic romanticism as well as his spirituality and technical flair. Adapted from Bram Stoker's Dracula, and mindful of an earlier German version of that same novel, Herzog's film, with its terrifying coda in which the reincarnated fiend rides out into the world, is perhaps the most compelling screen treatment of the vampire myth.Beginning with Stoker's book and the nineteenth-century obsession with vampires, S. S. Prawer goes on to explore the evolution of Herzog's career. To complete a comprehensive account of Nosferatu, Prawer describes the film's production history as well as the cultural and aesthetic components that combine to such powerful the skill of the actors; the debts to romanticism and to Murnau; the use of music by Wagner, Gounod, and Florian Fricke; and the film's many extraordinary, haunting images.
This comprehensive study reconstructs the production history of The Blue Angel , showing how Sternberg's virtuoso visual style was amply supported by an immensely talented team of actors and technicians. The book also analyzes the film's aesthetics.
The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933
Exploring the significant contributions of Jews in the cinema industry, this book analyzes their roles both in front of and behind the camera throughout film history. It delves into the portrayal of Jewish life in German and Austrian films, highlighting interactions among Jews and between Jews and non-Jews across various historical contexts. The author, a renowned film scholar, presents a comprehensive view of the Jewish influence in cinema, emphasizing their collaborative efforts in shaping the industry and evolving artistic expressions.
This study traces the successive stages of Thackeray's contact with the German world and analyses the discourse he developed as a result. The author is concerned with the fiction and criticism of Thackeray's :Paris Sketch Book" and the impressions related by the cockney traveller in "Irish Sketch Book" and "Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo". Thackeray's own pictorial illustrations of his writings and those by Cruikshank, Doyle and Walker, which he supervised and supplemented, are recognized as an integral part of his German discourse. The study is a chronological one, setting Thackeray's construction of "German" and "the Germans" against the background of his own development and of the social, industrial, cultural and political history of Britain and its continental neighbours.
