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FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER
A PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE GERMAN FILM
FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER
A PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE GERMAN FILM
REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION
By SIEGFRIED KRACAUER
Edited and introduced by Leonardo Quaresima
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON AND OXFORD
Copyright 1947, 2004 by Princeton University Press
Published by Princeton University Press,
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All Rights Reserved
First published 1947
Revised and Expanded Edition, 2004
First Princeton Classics edition, 2019
Paperback ISBN 978-0-691-19134-8
eISBN 978-0-691-19208-6 (ebook)
Version 1.0
The Library of Congress has cataloged the last edition of this book as follows:
Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966.
From Caligari to Hitler: a psychological history of the German film / by Siegfried Kracauer; edited and introduced by Leonardo Quaresima.Rev. and expanded ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-691-11518-4 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 0-691-11519-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Motion picturesGermanyHistory. 2. Motion picturesGermanyPsychological aspects. 3. National socialism and motion pictures. I. Quaresima, Leonardo. II. Title.
PN1993.5.G3K7 2004
791.43094309041dc22 | 2003066416 |
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EDITORS NOTE
THE PRESENT edition refers to the text published in 1947 and reprinted in several paperback editions. No alterations have been made to the text. Brief corrections and emendations are contained in the Note on the Inaccuracies. The most significant historiographic findings are discussed in the editors new introduction. The Structural Analysis section of the 1947 edition has been omitted.
The bibliography originally compiled by Kracauer has been revised and updated, and a short section has been added listing the main studies on Weimar and Wilhelmine cinema to appear after the publication of From Caligari to Hitler. The original index has been broken down into two separate indexes: name and film. The name index excludes names mentioned only in the footnotes. The film index gives the primary film data (original title, director and year of release) for those films cited in the book. Since the original illustrations do not reproduce well, they have been replaced with pictures that correspond to Kracauers selections. Only in the case of illustrations 4, 28, 31, 34 and 59 have new pictures been utilized. Karsten Wittes German edition of the book (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1979; 2nd rev. ed., 1984) proved invaluable, as did the latest Italian edition (Turin: Lindau, 2001).