Film Essays and Criticism

CONTENTS Translator's Foreword = ⅸ Introduction = 3 PART Ⅰ. FILM THEORY 1. Elements of Theory and Technique = 11 The Sad Future of Film(1930) = 11 For the First Time(1931) = 13 Film and Radio(1933) = 15 Remarks on Color Film(1935) = 18 Art Today and Film(1965) = 23 2. Sound Film = 29 Sound Film(1928) = 29 Sound Film Confusion(1929) = 32 The Singing Fool(1929) = 36 Atlantic(1929) = 38 Sound Film by Force(1931) = 39 Sound Film Gone Astray(1932) = 42 Philosophy of th Aha(1933) = 44 Sounds in the Left Hand(1933) = 47 Asynchronism(1934) = 49 3. Production = 52 In Praise of Character Actors(1931) = 52 Heroes for the Heart(1932) = 54 Lighting(1934) = 56 Who is the Author of a Film?(1934) = 62 4. Contents and Styles = 70 Style and Monotony in Film(1931) = 70 Death in Film(1932) = 72 Where Does Art Begin?(1933) = 74 Style(1934) = 76 Epic and Dramatic Film(1934) = 78 Symbols(1934) = 81 Expressionist Film(1934) = 84 Painting and Film(1934) = 86 5. Film and the State = 89 Film and Its Stepmother(1929) = 89 Kuhle Wampe(1932) = 93 Censorship without Scruples(1932) = 94 So-Called Freedom(1932) = 96 PART Ⅱ. FILM CRITICISM 6. Toward a Theory of Film Criticism = 101 Note(1927) = 101 Professional Film Criticism(1929) = 101 The Film Critic of Tomorrow(1935) = 105 7. Stachelschwein Reviews(1925 to 1928) = 111 Dr. Caligari Redivivus(1925) = 111 Buster Keaton as Sherlock Holmes, Jr.(1925) = 112 The Phantom of the Opera(1925) = 113 Emil Jannings : Variety(1926) = 116 Metropolis(1927) = 117 The Elisabeth Bergner Film "Love"(Liebe)(1927) = 119 Pudovkin's Mother(1927) = 121 Buster Keaton's General(1927) = 123 "The Weavers"(Die Weber)(1927) = 124 Lecture on the Napoleon Film(1927) = 126 Circus(1928) = 129 The End of St. Petersburg, Plus Peripheral Comments and Side-Glances(1928) = 130 Spies(1928) = 134 Erich von Stroheim in the Kamera(1928) = 136 8. Waldbühne Reviews(1928 to 1933) = 140 Accusation against a Good Film(1928) = 140 Lotte Reiniger's Silhouette Films(1928) = 141 Greeks and Mongols(1929) = 142 Old Chaplin Films(1929) = 145 Silent Beauty and Noisy Nonsense(1929) = 147 By Rocket to the Moon(1929) = 152 Tauber Sound and Studio(1930) = 153 Ermler and Eisenstein(1930) = 156 Chaplin, Now as Then(1931) = 158 Garbo and Gassenhauer(1931) = 159 Granowsky Experiments(1931) = 161 Cinema Rondo(1931) = 164 Tabu(1931) = 167 The Russians Are Playing(1931) = 168 Morocco(1931) = 172 Partly Expensive, Partly Good(1931) = 173 Dishonored(X27)(1932) = 178 French Film(1932) = 179 Answer(1932) = 183 Josef von Sternberg Cables(1932) = 184 Shanghai Express(1932) = 186 Escape into the Scenery(1932) = 187 Rapprochement in Oil(1932) = 190 Two Kinds of Rebels(1933) = 192 Film Report(1933) = 194 The Anthem of Leuthen(1933) = 198 9. Reviews after 1933 = 201 The Man of Aran(1934) = 201 Our Daily Bread(1935) = 203 Lost Horizon(1937) = 206 Sweet Girl and Film Art(1939) = 208 Anti-Fascist Satire(1940) = 211 10. Portraits = 216 Greta Garbo(1928) = 216 Grete Mosheim(1931) = 217 Rudolf Forster(1931) = 218 Albert Albert Préjean(1931) = 219 Hans Alberts(1931) = 220 Felix Bressart(1931) = 221 Chaplin as Teacher(1932) = 222 Erich von Stroheim(1934) = 223 To Maya Deren(1962) = 227 Chronology = 231 Complete Bibliography of Writings on Film by Rudolf Arnheim / Helmut H. Diederichs Compiled. = 233 Index = 249

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