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The Films of a Nation
Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M. | July 26, 1947 issue

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The article focuses on the book "From Caligari to Hitler. A Psychological History of the German Film," by Siegfried Kracauer. The thesis of this unusually interesting book is that the German films of twenties were filled with premonitions of the German totalitarianism of thirties, that German dictator Adolf Hitler arose as the resolution of psychological dilemmas which had been reflected in the German movies and which accounted for both their greatness and their decline. Films of the Weimar Republic, Kracauer argues, constitute a unique monologue intérieur. They reveal developments in almost inaccessible layers of the German mind.

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FROM Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Book); KRACAUER, Siegfried; HITLER, Adolf, 1889-1945; MOTION pictures; TOTALITARIANISM; DICTATORS; DRAMA
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