The first study by an acclaimed American scholar of the artistic interdependencies between the German and the Hollywood cinema in the 1920s.

This book offers a different take on the early history of Warner Bros., the studio renowned for introducing talking pictures and developing the gangster film an

This book takes a close look at a film that has heretofore been significantly undervalued by film scholars: Ernst Lubitsch’s The Student Prince in Old Heidelb

Focusing on stardom during the 1920s, this title reveals strong connections & dissonances in matters of storytelling & performance that can be traced both backw

How can we understand the history of film? Historical facts don’t answer the basic questions of film history. History, as this fascinating book shows, is more