Kammerspielfilm
Kammerspielfilm is a type of German film that offers an intimate, cinematic portrait of lower middle class life.[1][2]
History
The name derives from a theater, the intertitles to narrate the story.
Prominent figures
- Lupu Pick
- F. W. Murnau
- Carl Mayer
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
See also
- Shattered
- The Last Laugh
- German Expressionism
- German film history
- Alfred Hitchcock – influenced by Kammerspielfilm
References
- ^ Parkinson (1995, 60).
- ^ Where to begin with F.W. Murnau|BFI
- ^ Bordwell, David, and Kristin Thompson , ed. Film History. 3rd. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 95. Print.
- ^ The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock - Steven Jacobs - Google Books (pgs.16-17)
- ^ Carl Dreyer's "Michael" -Digitalization and the Rediscovery of a classic Kammerspiel-film|Kosmorama
- ^ Observations on film art: Murnau before NOSFERATU
- ^ SYLVESTER|Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival
Sources
- ISBN 978-0-07-114073-7.
- Parkinson, David. 1995. History of Film. World of Art ser. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-20277-7.
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