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Cinematography in the Weimar Republic: Lola Lola, Dirty Singles, and the Men Who Shot Them: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies

Autor Paul Matthew St. Pierre
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 aug 2016
In film history, director-cinematographer collaborations were on a labor spectrum, with the model of the contracted camera operator in the silent era and that of the cinematographer in the sound era. But in Weimar era German filmmaking, 1919-33, a short period of intense artistic activity and political and economic instability, these models existed side by side due to the emergence of camera operators as independent visual artists and collaborators with directors. Berlin in the 1920s was the chief site of the interdisciplinary avant-garde of the Modernist movement in the visual, literary, architectural, design, typographical, sartorial, and performance arts in Europe. The Weimar Revolution that arose in the aftermath of the November 1918 Armistice and that established the Weimar Republic informed and agitated all of the art movements, such as Expressionism, Dada, the Bauhaus, Minimalism, Objectivism, Verism, and Neue Sachlichkeit ("New Objectivity"). Among the avant-garde forms of these new stylistically and culturally negotiated arts, the cinema was foremost and since its inception had been a radical experimental practice in new visual technologies that proved instrumental in changing how human beings perceived movement, structure, perspective, light exposure, temporal duration, continuity, spatial orientation, human postural, facial, vocal, and gestural displays, and their own spectatorship, as well as conventions of storytelling like narrative, setting, theme, character, and structure. Whereas most of the arts mobilized into schools, movements, institutions, and other structures, cinema, a collaborative art, tended to organize around its ensembles of practitioners. Historically, the silent film era, 1895-1927, is associated with auteurs, the precursors of Fran ois Truffaut and other filmmakers in the 1960s: actuality filmmakers and pioneers like R. W. Paul and Fred and Joe Evans in England, Auguste and Luis Lumi re and Georges M li s in France, and Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton in America, who, by managing all the compositional, executional, and editorial facets of film production--scripting, directing, acting, photographing, set, costume, and lighting design, editing, and marketing--imposed their personal vision or authorship on the film. The dichotomy of the auteur and the production ensemble established a production hierarchy in most filmmaking. In formative German silent film, however, this hierarchy was less rank or class driven, because collaborative partnerships took precedence over single authorship. Whereas in silent film production in most countries the terms filmmaker and director were synonymous, in German silent film the plural term filmemacherin connoted both directors and cinematographers, along with the rest of the filmmaking crew. Thus, German silent filmmakers' principle contribution to the new medium and art of film was less the representational iconographies of Expressionist, New Objective, and Naturalist styles than the executional practice of co-authorship and co-production, in distinctive cinematographer-director partnerships such as those of cinematographer Theodor Sparkuhl and director Ernst Lubitsch; Fritz Arno Wagner with F. W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, and G. W. Pabst; Rudolf Mat with Carl Theodor Dreyer; Guido Seeber with Lang and Pabst; and Carl Hoffmann with Lang and Murnau.
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ISBN-13: 9781611479447
ISBN-10: 1611479444
Pagini: 286
Dimensiuni: 160 x 236 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
Seria The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies


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By Paul Matthew St. Pierre

Cuprins

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 The Weimar Revolution and German Collaborative Filmmaking 2 The Optical Convergence of Theodor Sparkuhl and Ernst Lubitsch 3 Karl Freund¿s Signature Visual Designs in Manifold Collaborations 4 Carl Hoffmann and the New Visual Discourse of German Silent Film 5 Fritz Arno Wagner, with F. W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, and Arthur Robison 6 Fritz Arno Wagner, G. W. Pabst, and the Weimar Zeitgeist 7 Günther Rittau, Günther Krampf, Optical Language, and Autonomous Collaborative Agency 8 Guido Seeber¿s Promotion from Special Effects Technician to Cinematographic Artist 9 Rudolph Maté, Carl Theodor Dreyer, and the Framing Principle of Cinematography 10 Cinematographers as Directors as Cinematographers and the Rebirth of Civilization Filmography Works Cited Index About the Author