Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War
Title | Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2009 |
Authors | Kaes, Anton |
Number of Pages | 312 |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
City | Princeton |
Abstract | Shell Shock Cinema shows how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the trauma of Germany's humiliating defeat. Anton Kaes argues that even films which do not depict war reveal a wounded nation in post-traumatic shock. |
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