From Caligari to Hitler -

Siegfried Kracauer

Princeton Univ Press

2004

440 páginas

14h 40m

ISBN-10: 0691115192

A pioneering postwar attempt at speculative cultural history, Kracauer finds in the nightmarish, expressionist landscape of early Weimar-era films, like 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' and 'Nosferatu', a projection of the inner torment of the German soul that would give birth to Hitler. While flawed by naive Marxist and Freudian analysis, it captures the sick feverishness of a culture on the verge of a nervous breakdown and finds, in the relationship between the sinister mountebank Dr Caligari and his murderous somnambulist, a metaphor for the relationship between Hitler and the German people.