Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War

The novel is great. Well written. However, if you are buying the e-book for school, don't. It doesn't give you the page numbers so citations are impossible.

Excellent, innovative, clearly argued, a must for Weimar cinema scholars and students. Kaes demonstrates his claim that film serves a society as a medium to come to terms with its "dark sides," conflicts, and desires.

Extremely insightful

This is a fascinating book, one of many, by a brilliant author and professor. Anyone interested in the Weimar Era and especially the cinema of that time should have it!

This is an excellently written book - persuasively argued and highly accessible, both to academic and non-academics. Makes a great reading assignment for a college film course.

This book by the great Anton Kaes tries to show the impact of World War I on the films of the Weimar Republic and it definitely succeeds in its purpose. Besides very thorough theoretical chapters there are illuminating essays on THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI, NOSFERATU, THE NIBELUNGEN and METROPOLIS.