Anton Kaes
Auteur van The Weimar Republic Sourcebook (Weimar and Now, No 3)
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Anton Kaes is Class of 1939 Professor of German and Film Media at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. His books include From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film (1989) and Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War (2009). He is also the co-editor of The Weimar toon meer Republic Sourcebook (1994) and The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933 (2016). toon minder
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I read half before viewing the film and then the second half after pausing midway through Lang's masterpiece. This is a meticulous analysis of 1931 Berlin and the Brechtian daimon of Peter Lorre. There is considerable context on the recent phenomenon of serial killing in this mass society, the role of popular press and radio on reinforcing a nascent surveillance state == one both official/efficient and the murky one of the neighbor qua lynch mob.
Well worth anyone's time… (meer)