Paul Matthew St. Pierre is professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 The Weimar Revolution and German Collaborative Filmmaking
2 The Optical Convergence of Theodor Sparkuhl and Ernst Lubitsch
3 Karl Freund's Signature Visual Designs in Manifold Collaborations
4 Carl Hoffmann and the New Visual Discourse of German Silent Film
5 Fritz Arno Wagner, with F. W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, and Arthur Robison
6 Fritz Arno Wagner, G. W. Pabst, and the Weimar Zeitgeist
7 Günther Rittau, Günther Krampf, Optical Language, and Autonomous Collaborative Agency
8 Guido Seeber's Promotion from Special Effects Technician to Cinematographic Artist
9 Rudolph Maté, Carl Theodor Dreyer, and the Framing Principle of Cinematography
10 Cinematographers as Directors as Cinematographers and the Rebirth of Civilization
Filmography
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

Cinematography in the Weimar Republic argues that the new medium of film was preeminent among the avant-garde art forms that distinguished the cultural renaissance of the Weimar Republic and that within this progressive medium cinematographers were the leading purveyors of the new kinetic visual imaginary.