Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War

TitleShell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsKaes, Anton
Number of Pages312
PublisherPrinceton University Press
CityPrinceton
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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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