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Samuel Frederick The Last Laugh (Paperback) Camden House German Film Classics. Publisher: Camden House Inc. Series: Camden House German Film Classics. Author: Samuel Frederick. Title: The Last Laugh. Language: German, English. Country/Region of Manufacture: US. Release Date: 09/19/2023. Further DetailsTitle: The Last Laugh Condition: New Description: A penetrating new reading of Murnau's classic silent film that shows its transitional status, both historically and stylistically, while emphasizing its innovative camerawork and the ethical stakes of its story.An undisputed masterpiece of silent cinema, F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924) stars the larger-than-life Emil Jannings as a proud hotel porter who is demoted to lowly washroom attendant. One worker's misfortune becomes a tragic turning point in a social drama as much about the struggling Weimar Republic, which had just overcome several years of social, political, and economic instability, as about its working-class citizens. At once clinging to the symbols of the old order while helplessly thrust into an unforgiving modern world, Jannings's fallen porter embodies the contradictions of this transitional moment for the young democracy. Samuel Frederick shows us that Murnau's film is similarly transitional: born at the crossroads between the Expressionist style of the early 1920s and the emerging aesthetics of New Objectivity, it is both soberly realistic and oneirically distorted. With only one intertitle, The Last Laugh's flow of images is complemented by cinematographer Karl Freund's innovative mobile camera, which, "unchained" from the tripod, swims effortlessly through the film's different urban spaces. Here, inanimate objects become charged with potency and architecture is animated, conveying both allure and danger. Frederick's incisive analysis of the film foregrounds the visual dynamism of its technological and aesthetic experimentation while also pursuing the ethical implications of its central figure's downfall. Author: Samuel Frederick Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1640141294 EAN: 9781640141292 ISBN: 9781640141292 Publisher: Camden House Inc Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 191mm Item Length: 133mm Genre: Films & TV Release Date: 09/19/2023 Language: German, English Series: Camden House German Film Classics Topic: Literary Criticism Item Weight: 141g Release Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
