Ian Roberts

Covering classic films such as 'The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari' and 'Nosferatu' as well as under-appreciated examples such as 'Asphalt', this volume forms an essential introduction to one of cinema's most historically important movements.

The World of Light and Shadow

German Expressionist Cinema

by far my least favorite parts of the book were the paragraph long descriptions of movies that sound really interesting and get me hyped up to watch a cool movie only to have the paragraph end with “and all known copies of the movie are lost”. absolutely infuriating.

German Expressionist Cinema The World of Light and Shadow