first edition Hardcover
(c.2002) · Wiesbaden/München
by Pflaum, Hans Günther
Wiesbaden/München: Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes. Near Fine. (c.2002). First Edition. Hardcover. (photographic covers; no dust jacket, probably as issued) [very slight handling wear only]. (B&W and color photographs, facsimiles) Surprisingly substantive for a book of such modest dimensions (just a little bit bigger than a mass-market paperback), this volume packs of lot of information on the high points of the German silent cinema into its 165 pages. Following a nice compact introduction to the historical and aesthetic aspects of the period, most of the book is devoted to analyses of these individual films: THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI; THE (truncated)