Contents

• Activating the differences : expressionist film and early Weimar cinema / Dietrich Scheunemann
• Weimar cinema, mobile selves, and anxious males : Kracauer and Eisner revisited / Thomas Elsaesser
• Revolution, power, and desire in Ernst Lubitsch’s Madame Dubarry / Marc Silberman
• "Bringing the ghostly to life" : Fritz Lang and his early Dr. Mabuse films / Norbert Grob
• Murnau, a conservative filmmaker? : on film history as intellectual history / Thomas Koebner
• The double, the décor, and the framing device : once more on Robert Wiene’s The cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Dietrich Scheunemann
• Film as graphic art : on Karl Heinz Martin’s From morn to midnight / Jürgen Kasten
• Episodic patchwork : the bric-à-brac principle in Paul Leni’s Waxworks / Jürgen Kasten
• Entrapment and escape : readings of the city in Karl Grune’s The street and G.W. Pabst’s The joyless street / Anthony Coulson
• Fragmenting the space : on E.A. Dupont’s Varieté / Thomas Brandlmeier
• On Murnau’s Faust : a generic Gesamtkunstwerk? / Helmut Schanze
• "Painting in time" and "visual music" : on German avant-garde films of the 1920s / Walter Schobert
• Ruttmann, rhythm, and "reality" : a response to Siegfried Kracauer’s interpretation of Berlin, the symphony of a great city / David Macrae