Lucy Fischer

Sunrise (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is one of the most historically pivotal of all films. The first American film of the celebrated German director F.W. Murnau, Sunrise tells the story of a love triangle between characters named only as The Man, The Wife, and The Woman from the City.

Lucy Fischer's compelling study of the film shows how it mediates between German expressionism and American melodrama, the avantgarde and popular film, silent cinema and 'talkies'. A lavish and sumptuous production famous for its vast, specially-constructed sets, and one of the first feature films with a synchronized musical score and sound effects soundtrack, Sunrise was one of early Hollywood's most ambitious undertakings.

In her foreword to this new edition, Lucy Fischer considers the film as an abiding classic of world cinema.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839022005
• Artikelnr.: 59930559

Autorenporträt

Lucy Fischer retired in 2018 as a Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Her most recent book is Cinema by Design: Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the 2020 Edition Acknowledgments 'Sunrise'; Border Crossings Europe
America Film
Literature Silence
Sound City
Country The Madonna
The Whore Objective
Subjective Poetry
Narrative Stasis
Movement Painting
Cinema Classical
Modernist Surveyor
Surveyed Lost
Found Notes Credits Works Cited Bibliography